If I were a Democrat, all I'd care about is that they obstruct Trump's agenda and that the GOP loses 2 House seats, and electing them will make sure that this happens.
That's the problem with the Democratic Party, though: there's no coherent vision or message whatsoever. Demanding that the party fights to enact even the most basic of left-wing policies gets you branded as a divisive "purity snowflake" or whatever.
I don't get this at all. Quist supports universal healthcare & an increased minimum wage; Trump wants to roll back labor laws & strip millions of their health insurance.
(Not that "populist" is a particularly meaningful or otherwise useful term, of course.)
I see, and I totally understand your frustration with the Democratic Party. Do you simply view the party as the "lesser of two evils" and don't really identify with it? Because if so, odds are that you're going to be very disappointed in the coming months and years, especially the next time a Democrat wins the presidency. Don't get me wrong or anything, but I think you and jfern might be closer to the Greens than the Democrats. But I'm not a Democrat, so I certainly won't argue with you about this.
Regarding Quist... I think his biggest mistake is that he's trying to (or pretending to) appeal to everyone at the same time (gun owners and gun control supporters, Berniecrats and Clinton supporters, populist Trump voters and Democrats in urban areas, etc.), but it's become obvious that he's not some "different kind of Democrat" but basically just a puppet of the national Democratic party, of which I'm... well... not the biggest fan of. I mean, JFC, he sounded like Hillary Clinton during the debate when he talked about foreign policy. I wouldn't mind voting for a honest Socialist or whatever, but Quist really strikes me as a fraud (and the state has had enough of these kind of politicians). I had a high opinion of him when he announced his campaign, but it's gone downhill rapidly recently. Either way, I'll be glad when the election is over.
Quist hasn't run the best campaign, but then Gianforte is terrible & is on ways moderate. He is close to Trump, doesn't believe in man made climate change, supports this extreme healthcare bill, doesn't even believe in Social Security, Medicare, opposed any background checks in the debate & is slimy & blatantly lies about everything including Quist taxing at 90% etc.
Sure Quist isn't perfect but Gianforte probably would have joined the Freedom Caucus if Montana was more like Alabama! But anyways, it's a 2 way election, so...!
