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BrianTheEVGuy

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3. The reason "progressives" lost is simple
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 06:30 AM
Aug 2024

And it’s the same reason Trump will lose in November — extreme positions don’t sell to mainstream voters.

If people wanted extremism, no amount of money could stop them from voting for it.

They don’t want extremism. Voters knew Bowman and Bush, who both forgot about their constituents and pursued a set of policies that didn’t serve the people who elected them. So the people chose candidates who would focus on their concerns instead.

There’s a lesson in there, and it’s not “Jewish voters and Jewish American political organizations should be banned from participating in the political process.”

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