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Irish_Dem

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10. What is the outcome?

Reply to politruk (Reply #8)

Mon Apr 19, 2021, 07:40 PM

Apr 2021

Do you think the progressives can move the Dem party to the left in a significant way?
At any rate, over time the younger generation will do this anyway?

Or are you suggesting that the Dems will end up like the GOP?
A party broken into pieces?

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There are four factions that matter in American politics now [View all] politruk Apr 2021 OP

I'd argue your second point that the progressive insurgency is the only one growing. Arthur_Frain Apr 2021 #1

What I'm assuming politruk Apr 2021 #2

None of the above JustAnotherGen Apr 2021 #3

+1 betsuni Apr 2021 #9

Nonsense. Democrats are the most united since the emergencies of the 1930s. Hortensis Apr 2021 #4

I recall reading politruk Apr 2021 #5

:) Many could have for her. There's always been an enormous difference Hortensis Apr 2021 #7

I'm against the NAZIs, and the entire Democratic Party better be against them too. Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #6

I think you all are underestimating politruk Apr 2021 #8

What is the outcome? Irish_Dem Apr 2021 #10

That will never happen because the "take over" is based on incorrect ideas. betsuni Apr 2021 #11

And who would have believed, in 2008, politruk Apr 2021 #12

Tea party was the base of the Republican Party JI7 Apr 2021 #13

They chose that path long ago: Southern Strategy, politicizing Christian evangelicals, betsuni Apr 2021 #14