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In reply to the discussion: Can we stop with the outrage at non and 3rd party.. [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)And I say this not to excuse the HRC supporters in 08 who couldn't move past the primaries.
1) john mc cain is not Donald Trump. He was seen as a moderate, in fact for a good while he was liked more by center leftists than the republican base. I could better understand a Democrat voting for McCain in 08 than I could self-professed "progressives" voting in ways which would ultimately lead to the election of the most heinous individual to ascend to the presidency in decades.
2) the divisions fueled by certain actors among democrats in 2016 has had a lasting effect, as is evidenced by threads in this very forum.
The overall point though is that if these progressives really cared about their cause, they would stop being the useful idiots of Republicans.