What Progressives Keep Getting Wrong. Graham Platner is the perfect embodiment of the left’s strategy for returning to power. This is a problem.
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What Progressives Keep Getting Wrong. Graham Platner is the perfect embodiment of the left’s strategy for returning to power. This is a problem.
Posted by Sine_Fine_Belli
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wake up babe it’s time to jerk off about how dumb bernie bros are
>But the left’s continued embrace of Platner has a certain logic. Progressives have a theory of political change for which he remains, despite his massive and ever-expanding political baggage, the ideal prototype. That is, rather than abandon unpopular positions, Democrats should court voters by nominating more candidates who look like, talk like, and ideally even are working-class people.
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>To the extent that a majority of Americans hold regressive social positions on issues such as immigration and trans rights, these “unacceptable” beliefs, in the words of one organizer, are a kind of false consciousness—a dire product of economic desperation and right-wing propaganda. The solution progressives propose is to avoid addressing these concerns at all by changing the subject to economics, advocating a left-wing populist program, and recruiting candidates who can speak to blue-collar white voters.
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He’s a disastrous candidate obviously
My big concern is how Mills is losing so badly in the polls to this dishonest unvetted charlatan when we’ve seen other governors/senators instantly get huge leads when they declare for the other office. Literally Roy Cooper just now in North Carolina
This is likely going to be a competitive primary when Platner shoud be losing quite comfortably.
IDK what that shows. Great skepticism to Mills as a candidate? The Dem electorate being way too forgiving and generous?
I read this earlier so I can post a link for the global poor: [https://web.archive.org/web/20251025130627/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/graham-platner-progressive-democratic-strategy-moderate/684692/](https://web.archive.org/web/20251025130627/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/graham-platner-progressive-democratic-strategy-moderate/684692/)