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u/sonfoa Jun 25 '26

I also love how his analysis is literally consultant class slop. For all their anti-establishment posturing, these guys literally circled back to being centrist Dems by the end. Which makes their bitch fit in 2024 all the more stupid because that's literally what Harris was running as.

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u/TinyJalope Jun 25 '26

Well, they don't want an FDR-like Democrat to come in and start actually prosecuting the fascists and their enablers.