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In reply to the discussion: Radosh: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez are losing the way home [View all]underthematrix
(5,811 posts)because we have to make spaces for all voices. However, voters need to view their strategy from the perspective of how it serves Trump and the GOP in 2018 just as it did in 2016.
This is the paragraph that really stood out to me:
Harrington might have personally wanted Medicare for All, but he wouldnt have risked electing a Republican, in a state that voted for Trump, by campaigning for Welder, the most progressive candidate vying to challenge Republican Kevin Yoder. At a time when everyone knows that the only way to stop the Trump administrations policies is a Democratic takeover of the House, Michael Harrington would not jeopardize that goal when it might mean moderates and centrists might choose to either not vote or vote for Yoder. He would apply that same logic when it came to endorsing Thompson. At the rally, Thompson said others urged he be more centrist, a course he rejected as being nothing less than being Republican light.
So if Thompson wins the primary, Democrats are gonna have to work just as hard for him as they would for a moderate or centrist Democrat because the ONLY way we can protect our democracy at this point is to control both chambers of Congress. It's that simple.