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Newsom is trolling Trump with his own tweets (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even more reason such a weak candidate can't be allowed to win the primary. Putting forward such a weak platform and demanding the base hold their noses didn't work in 2024, so why would it work again? Why leave things up the chance when every vote supposedly counts? 🙃

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think it's one of those cases where whoever gets the nominated, the right wing agitprop machine will work overtime to throw wedges into the opposition and fins reasons for people to be Righteously Mad.

    So there has to be some space for disagreement and common goals. Not 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' but at least 'we are broadly going in the same direction and we can at least move the Overton window'.

    It is an iterative game. Newsome, asshole or not, makes space for a slightly less right wing asshole next time. Take the long view.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That's such a losers mentality. People need someone to excite them, which is what this fascist reject is trying to performatively emulate. The Dems lost because they demanded people vote against rather than for, and people saw little hope in that.

    I do not share common goals with Newsom, because California Dems like him only know how to make laws that help the rich seem progressive. I am not going in the same direction as him because he's explicitly leaving us trans people behind. Newsom would a degenerative iteration in every sense, even more so that he showed his true colors when he tried to join Trump.

    Dems embracing him makes me even more hopeless for the future. Y'all just don't get that moving further right and never fundamentally changing is what got us here.

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