Ah right. Well his biggest liabilities are "billionaire" which can't be helped and I think most normies & even reasonable progs can hand wave; precedent in FDR, and he walks his talk; more of an issue is AIPAC background. I think he's changed his tune some but'll have to be a lot more
I think he can roll with the times. I hope. that said there are a lot of On Here types that'll never trust him even if he switches to "from the river to the sea" (he will not, and neither will any other POTUS candidate) but they'd likely find something else anyway.
"The left" whatever that means anymore, will never support a Dem nominee that is mainstream enough to actually win the nomination. Anyway. FDR is a good model. My parents were staunch FDR Democrats. I imbibed that stuff at the dinner table, along with my Dad being a union steelworker and here I am.
this entire multi-decade project by the GOP has been erasing everything FDR accomplished, let alone what was built on top of it (Kennedy, Johnson, even Nixon ffs as well as pieces in later admins) now shooting for the moon for pre-Civil War & pre American Revolution
I don't know a lot about him TBH. I like his recent public statements, that's about all I know.
If you read his feed, it's mostly IL centered on his accomplishments. He sold me when he said at one point basically my family immigrated from Eastern Europe (he's Jewish), immigrants are America and Good, actually, mic drop. No shit about "but, the border" or whatever.
also much more stalwart on trans folk. just generally comes off as a decent person as well as a fighter and leader who gets shit (kitchen table, local/state concerns) done.
His positions on Israel have been very mainstream but that is not going to be good enough for the left.
I think there's gonna be some shifting, seeing it already. He at least called for defunding Israel while this bullshit is going on, which is more than a number have done.
I like him a lot, don’t get me wrong. But I am deeply dubious they will accept an actual Jew with a longstanding commitment to Israel unless he does a complete 180 and even then they will be mistrustful.
Is there any Dem with an actual chance to win the nomination that they would trust or embrace? Serious question. I think we've lot a lot of ground trying futilely to gain traction with the left.
AOC maybe?
Maybe. But there are already signs of them turning on her, because she was a quick and adept student of politics. I like her a lot.
AOC was denied access to the Columbia protests for “being a Zionist.” Seriously. Google it. Zionist in this case meant working with Biden on non-Israel related issues.
Even Mamdani, who's mostly still a darling on here--across the board, I hasten to add, I think he seems fantastic--just carefully but publicly disclaimed the DSA national platform (on grounds of "I do NYC, not my table sorry); I expect he'll be another traitor to the Cause before the end of this.
oh I believe it. She got a lot of people yelling at her on here for that ridiculous bullshit with MTG and that bill. Performative shit, and now she doesn't come around here anymore. they are insufferable.
Yes, I wasn't closely following the details, but I was aware that she had been declared unclean for some infraction or other.
I can deal with Mamdani having been Uncommitted, despite being nearly incandescent at people who flat out refused to vote for Harris and STILL defend that, blaming Harris and the Dems and taking zero responsibility for the outcome while also wanting credit for taking a meaningful stance: pick one.
I'm not making up that definition of Zionist either. Admittedly it was mainly Khymani James who was doing that and he was temporarily removed as a spokespeep.
I respect her more than I used to. She’s growing into the job and learning to be effective. Ideally I would like to see her move up to the Senate next.
I'd LOVE to see her replace Schumer. A run for president now is very premature in my opinion.