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[–] [S] 1 point 2 hours ago

Excellent explanation, thank you!

If he's cunning, he might allow a few small progressive measures among swaths of centrist appeasement, so that when people get disappointed and don't turn out for Dems in 2028 due to their prevailing third-way neoliberalism, he can point to the onesies and twosies of consolatory progressive legislation and blame them for the failures.

But if those consolatory progressive legislations end up being enough to motivate the base for 2028, he'll frame it as an endorsement of his status quo centrism a.k.a. fiscal conservatism.

But he'll sabotage any progressive policy so major that its effects on voter turnout in 2028 would be undeniable.

This is why a Jeffries speakership would be fundamentally toxic to the advancement of an agenda that serves the needs and interests of the people instead of the corporations and oligarchs.

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