How can progressives enthusiastically support Booker in a Dem primary?

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I guess Booker would keep abortion legal but so would every other Democrat (and most Republicans really). Other than that, there's no real way Booker is superior to Trump except if you find being funny a negative quality.

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Im sorry but Booker lives in freaking NJ Wall Street execs and the people they employ live in suburbs in NJ. Being "pro-wall street" just means he does right by his constituents, also "alt-right on education" isn't a thing the "alt-right" is a race movement like neo-nazis

Yeah, "alt right on education" was a stupid comment and you should feel stupid for making it. "alt right" has a meaning, just like neo-conservative has a meaning, and "fascist" has a meaning. It doesn't just mean "something vaguely on the right that I don't like".

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He can't. He's all the problems with Clinton (too close to corporatism/Wall Street, too centrist to win over left-wingers) maximized. He's not going to be able to appeal to progressives in the primary, and if he wins the nomination he'll lose to Trump in the general election and help the GOP retain their majorities in the House and Senate.

Democrats need to realize that Clinton's popularity with white suburbanites and college grads was a one-off thing, and even then it cost the Democrats a lot of down ballot races. You shouldn't be trying to appeal to disenfranchised Republicans who vote. You should be trying to appeal to working-class voters and Millennials who typically DON'T vote and maximize turnout.

If Hillary Clinton of all people can win a Democratic primary, why shouldn't Booker be able to? And the Sanders wing is clearly a minority of the Democratic primary electorate.

Clinton had the advantage of inevitability™ on her side, which scared away all potential challengers from the establishment wing and allowed her to run unopposed (or so it seemed) in the primary); Booker, on the other hand, won't have said luxury. I think it's more likely than not that he crashes and burns when he runs in four years time.

This is actually a benefit for Booker though. It's easier to win with 30% in a multicandidate race than it is to win with 50% in a 2 person race. Hillary was dumb to want the field cleared. She's just bad at politics in general, which is why she's not president now.

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as long as no other Black guy runs, he'll stand out.