Progressives + DSA take over Nevada Democratic Party

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

It's far from obvious to me that Nevada is the kind of swingy that rewards moderate -ness. It's not like the NVGOP produces particularly moderate figures (other than one Brian Sandoval). It seems more like a state that's polarized between two parties with very high floors, more of a Wisconsin or North Carolina than a Maine, so in that context it doesn't seem to me that electing DSA-affiliated party mandarins suddenly dooms CCM two years out.

Oh, you're completely right here. Nevada just rewards organizing, competence, and machine politics. And I don't have faith in these DSA types to be sufficiently competent at running a functional party machine--at least better than Reid allies. I hope to be proven wrong.

Well, they were clearly well-organized and competent enough to take over the party in the first place.

That's a completely different endeavor. State party activists are...an odd bunch. Whatever. Just as long as that senate seat stays locked down.

[Hindsight was 2020]

I got to admit I don’t really get the guillotines meme or why there are leftist circles that thinks it’s funny? Maybe it’s because I think Robespierre was a massive pos or that the Reign of Terror was a awful event but the humor doesn’t translate

[Skill and Chance]

IDK, but this looks and feels way too much like the VA GOP in 2013!

[GoTfan]

Good to see the usual crowd taking this about as well as could be expected.

I thought we were the only ones who had the hissy fits. Progressives voted for Biden en masse while you people were telling them to line up behind Biden. They did. The second they won an election, you hacks are wanting people you agree to work around the state party and undermine their authority, the very thing you accuse progressives of every single hour of the day.

You're not Democrats. You're anti-progressives.

Never, ever, EVER bring up unity again, you utter, utter hypocrites.

[GeneralMacArthur]

I got to admit I do really get the guillotines meme or why there are leftist circles that thinks it’s funny? Maybe it’s because I think Robespierre was a massive pos or that the Reign of Terror was a awful event but the humor doesn’t translate

Leftism has three fundamental principles:

1:  Democrats are the real enemy
2:  Kill all rich people
3:  Amerikkka bad

As long as you say something that falls into one of those three buckets, you are 100% guaranteed approval, and the stronger or cutesier your sentiment the more social media plaudits you will earn.

And that's, basically, the entire game.  Copy+paste Bernie's platform as your core beliefs, and memorize a handful of talking points so you can dunk on Republicans.  But most of your time is going to be spent making and/or sharing memes and commentary about one of those three principles.

[GoTfan]

I got to admit I do really get the guillotines meme or why there are leftist circles that thinks it’s funny? Maybe it’s because I think Robespierre was a massive pos or that the Reign of Terror was a awful event but the humor doesn’t translate

Leftism has three fundamental principles:

1:  Democrats are the real enemy
2:  Kill all rich people
3:  Amerikkka bad

As long as you say something that falls into one of those three buckets, you are 100% guaranteed approval, and the stronger or cutesier your sentiment the more social media plaudits you will earn.

And that's, basically, the entire game.  Copy+paste Bernie's platform as your core beliefs, and memorize a handful of talking points so you can dunk on Republicans.  But most of your time is going to be spent making and/or sharing memes and commentary about one of those three principles.

How much straw did you need for that post?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Good to see the usual crowd taking this about as well as could be expected.

I thought we were the only ones who had the hissy fits. Progressives voted for Biden en masse while you people were telling them to line up behind Biden. They did. The second they won an election, you hacks are wanting them to work around the state party and undermine their authority.

You're not Democrats. You're anti-progressives.

Never, ever, EVER bring up unity again, you utter, utter hypocrites.

Oh get over yourself.

All I'm doing--and all I see anyone else doing--is expressing concern over the plausible electoral consequences of this. I assume I speak for everyone when I say I'm happy to give them a chance--I'm just not optimistic a bunch of DSA activists will actually do the job better than the Reid machine and a lot is on the line. Anyhow, I wish them success and I wish the Democratic Party another happy decade of coalition building.

Edit: GMac may be doing his own thing, but that's to be expected.

[GoTfan]

Good to see the usual crowd taking this about as well as could be expected.

I thought we were the only ones who had the hissy fits. Progressives voted for Biden en masse while you people were telling them to line up behind Biden. They did. The second they won an election, you hacks are wanting them to work around the state party and undermine their authority.

You're not Democrats. You're anti-progressives.

Never, ever, EVER bring up unity again, you utter, utter hypocrites.

Oh get over yourself.

All I'm doing--and all I see anyone else doing--is expressing concern over the plausible electoral consequences of this. I assume I speak for everyone when I say I'm happy to give them a chance--I'm just not optimistic a bunch of DSA activists will actually do the job better than the Reid machine and a lot is on the line. Anyhow, I wish them success and I wish the Democratic Party another happy decade of coalition building.

Edit: GMac may be doing his own thing, but that's to be expected.

One look through this entire thread disproves that people want them to succeed.

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SO PLEASE, WATCH YOUR MESSAGING AND KEEP PEOPLE IN LINE.

I imagine they won't be making up stories of chairs being thrown by supporters of Democrats they don't like for the national media to report on endlessly. I can't say so much for all the people who took the money the party had and left.

[Sestak]

226 and its machine are still completely intact and this will all be forgotten in three days. No one cares.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Good to see the usual crowd taking this about as well as could be expected.

I thought we were the only ones who had the hissy fits. Progressives voted for Biden en masse while you people were telling them to line up behind Biden. They did. The second they won an election, you hacks are wanting them to work around the state party and undermine their authority.

You're not Democrats. You're anti-progressives.

Never, ever, EVER bring up unity again, you utter, utter hypocrites.

Oh get over yourself.

All I'm doing--and all I see anyone else doing--is expressing concern over the plausible electoral consequences of this. I assume I speak for everyone when I say I'm happy to give them a chance--I'm just not optimistic a bunch of DSA activists will actually do the job better than the Reid machine and a lot is on the line. Anyhow, I wish them success and I wish the Democratic Party another happy decade of coalition building.

Edit: GMac may be doing his own thing, but that's to be expected.

One look through this entire thread disproves that people want them to succeed.

The only person who *might* be doing that is Gass. And Kingpoleon, I guess, but he isn't actually a Democrat so that doesn't prove your point. Sure, you have plenty of red avs who are--reasonably--a bit disappointed about this but people aren't rooting against them.

[GoTfan]

Good to see the usual crowd taking this about as well as could be expected.

I thought we were the only ones who had the hissy fits. Progressives voted for Biden en masse while you people were telling them to line up behind Biden. They did. The second they won an election, you hacks are wanting them to work around the state party and undermine their authority.

You're not Democrats. You're anti-progressives.

Never, ever, EVER bring up unity again, you utter, utter hypocrites.

Oh get over yourself.

All I'm doing--and all I see anyone else doing--is expressing concern over the plausible electoral consequences of this. I assume I speak for everyone when I say I'm happy to give them a chance--I'm just not optimistic a bunch of DSA activists will actually do the job better than the Reid machine and a lot is on the line. Anyhow, I wish them success and I wish the Democratic Party another happy decade of coalition building.

Edit: GMac may be doing his own thing, but that's to be expected.

One look through this entire thread disproves that people want them to succeed.

The only person who *might* be doing that is Gass. And Kingpoleon, I guess, but he isn't actually a Democrat so that doesn't prove your point. Sure, you have plenty of red avs who are--reasonably--a bit disappointed about this but people aren't rooting against them.

You and i are looking at different threads then.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Good to see the usual crowd taking this about as well as could be expected.

I thought we were the only ones who had the hissy fits. Progressives voted for Biden en masse while you people were telling them to line up behind Biden. They did. The second they won an election, you hacks are wanting them to work around the state party and undermine their authority.

You're not Democrats. You're anti-progressives.

Never, ever, EVER bring up unity again, you utter, utter hypocrites.

Oh get over yourself.

All I'm doing--and all I see anyone else doing--is expressing concern over the plausible electoral consequences of this. I assume I speak for everyone when I say I'm happy to give them a chance--I'm just not optimistic a bunch of DSA activists will actually do the job better than the Reid machine and a lot is on the line. Anyhow, I wish them success and I wish the Democratic Party another happy decade of coalition building.

Edit: GMac may be doing his own thing, but that's to be expected.

One look through this entire thread disproves that people want them to succeed.

The only person who *might* be doing that is Gass. And Kingpoleon, I guess, but he isn't actually a Democrat so that doesn't prove your point. Sure, you have plenty of red avs who are--reasonably--a bit disappointed about this but people aren't rooting against them.

You and i are looking at different threads then.

Cite.

[Ferguson97]

Nevada is like the worst state this could’ve happened to as well...

[Alben Barkley]

Yup, it’s over. Congrats Senator Adam Laxalt.

https://twitter.com/ralstonreports/status/1369462152080224258?s=21

Tankies need to be purged from the Democratic Party ASAP or we're screwed everywhere.

[Ancestral Republican]

Yup, it’s over. Congrats Senator Adam Laxalt.

https://twitter.com/ralstonreports/status/1369462152080224258?s=21

Tankies need to be purged from the Democratic Party ASAP or we're screwed everywhere.

Completely agree, this random low-level organizer is surely going to doom the re-election chances of Joe Biden in 2024. Also, this tweet definitely proves that she is committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Dengist, which is the fastest growing and most destructive wing of the modern Democratic Party.

[Ferguson97]

You're not Democrats. You're anti-progressives.

I am a progressive. DSA-types are not progressives and they cannot win a general election in Nevada.

[Morning in Atlas]

The only person who *might* be doing that is Gass. And Kingpoleon, I guess, but he isn't actually a Democrat so that doesn't prove your point. Sure, you have plenty of red avs who are--reasonably--a bit disappointed about this but people aren't rooting against them.

Personally as a New Hampshirite I would like this development to cement our FITN status

[Crumpets]

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1369524987644702720

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good God the centrist handwringing in this thread is tedious.

[Beet]

https://twitter.com/stealyoredbull/status/1369310124125413379

[Ferguson97]

Social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism and has historically sided with fascists against the left.

Lol what utter nonsense.

If someone believes that social democrats are "moderate fascists", they're so far left they're falling off the table.

[GoTfan]

Social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism and has historically sided with fascists against the left.

Lol what utter nonsense.

If someone believes that social democrats are "moderate fascists", they're so far left they're falling off the table.

It's standard rhetoric from the Stalinist era. Social democrats are, their eyes, 'social fascists'.

It's of course total f**king nonsense.

[WD]

CCM is going to lose, isn’t she? What a mess.

[GoTfan]

CCM is going to lose, isn’t she? What a mess.

Sounds like you're rooting for them to fail