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cinyc
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« on: July 13, 2019, 11:41:21 PM »

There is no Democratic Party feud. That tweet from the official Democratic leadership account attacking AOC's Chief of Staff is just a figment of your imagination. Everything is okay. End sarcasm.

Well - sort of - the media will cover up for the Dems as usual, and gloss over it, while it would be the next big scandal with wall-to-wall coverage if Republican leadership did the same thing to members of the House Freedom Caucus.
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2019, 05:12:55 PM »

And as an addendum to my previous comment, the thing that OP’s question completely misses the point on is that the current feuding within the Democratic Party has little to do with identity politics. It’s internal tension between the progressive wing complaining about the party establishment being too business friendly and the party establishment getting annoyed at the progressive insurgents for being rowdy and uncooperative.

I mean sure, they’ll smack each other over identity issues in the primary, but nobody is going to threaten to stay home because of that come Election Day or switch to voting for Trump. The people with the greatest probability of being alienated by the current party conflict would be anti-establishment progressives who might get upset that the nominee is somebody they consider too corporatist. Not because somebody was “too woke” or not woke enough. Anybody getting triggered by the identity politics of the Democrats has already either left the party or was never a Democrat to begin with. It’s not going to cause any major fissures among current Democratic voters.

AOC’s chief of staff all but called Sharice Davids racist, the “Squad” hinted that Pelosi is racist, and the official Twitter account of the Democratic party told him to shut up. But there is no feuding in the Democratic party, and it has nothing to do with identity politics.

There are these places called swing districts where people called swing voters vote on many things, including identity politics. Democrats would not hold the House without these districts.
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