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sonatine
bernie talking to his team today about closing up shop and pivoting to c19 support.
Dear fellow Progressives (and so-called “Bernie bros”):
It’s time to let go of the dream of taking control of the Democratic Party from the top down by nominating Brother Bernie to be the Dem Party prez nominee, and swing our focus to doing so by primarying sitting corporatist Dems in the House and Senate.
We made great progress in the 2018 House races, and are continuing to do in the upcoming 2020 House elections.
As such, let’s not squander any goodwill that Brother Bernie has built up with the American people in the past few years with his common sense messaging on policies that would greatly benefit average Americans but being bitter about the success of the Dem establishment’s status quo candidate. Getting Trump out of office this election cycle is more important than that. And working against that objective will only lose us ground with the lesser enlightened Americans who nevertheless have expressed support for many of the reforms Brother Bernie has fought for.
And because our support of Bernie over the years has help him move the Overton window of those issues, let’s give thanks for that and regroup and refocus for a more ground-up reform of the Party going forward.
Your fellow Progressive,
MumblesBadly