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In reply to the discussion: Remember: No Phony Democrats! [View all]Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)We already have new elected senators that are more like Manchin than AOC. If Manchin resigned. Mitch is back in control no matter what happens in Georgia. Moderates took the House and that is a fact. We can't have three members in +30 districts calling the shots unless we want to lose the house as well as the Senate. I do believe some of the messaging as well as the stimulus (which was not our fault) cost us house seats.
Name one liberal/progressive senator who has won in the last 10 years. I hate using the word progressive this way because we are all progressive and liberal.We all have our opinions but everyone one of us here are progressive. But defund the police certainly was not a winning message for us. Consider California... a progressive state. Affirmative action lost in there for God's sake as did the Uber bill,rent control and getting rid of cash bail. We won back three seats from the blue wave year of 2018 in California, but we lost three incumbents. And fucking Issa is back. If we must win by attracting more moderates to a big tent party than so be it. And those squad members complaining when we have to work now to win Georgia Senate and kick Mitch to the curb ...are not helping our efforts. The bottom line is winning is everything. We get nothing if we don't win. We need a big tent party and a 50 state strategy. Our message needs to be 'conservatism sucks and here is why'...not attacking our own.