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DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from This (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

...you don't win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992...

[–] Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The only way to win over conservatives is a full-throated embrace of fascism. Turns them out like crazy.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

...the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn't the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who'd never support them anyway...