Schatz: Dems will nominate a progressive in 2020
Source: The Hill
BY TAL AXELROD - 11/24/18 04:59 PM EST
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said a progressive would be nominated as the Democratic Partys presidential nominee in 2020 but that it would not signify a battle with centrists.
Link to tweet
we must reject the premise that this is a fight between moderates and progressives. We are going to nominate a progressive, Schatz said in a lengthy twitter thread.
the progressive we nominate should also be capable of getting votes from moderates and even republicans. That wouldnt make them less progressive, that would make them better, he added.
Democrats are likely to see a crowded field of candidates that will seek to appeal to the partys progressive wing after the perception that Hillary Clinton failed to sufficiently do so in 2016.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/418089-schatz-dems-will-nominate-a-progressive-in-2020
msongs
(67,193 posts)pecosbob
(7,502 posts)Rizen
(703 posts)Who are useful idiots to Republicans by voting for the green party or not at all then using excuses like "there's no difference between Dems and Republicans, they're both corporate owned", "Hillary rigged the primaries against Bernie," "voting for the lesser of 2 evils is still evil", "I couldn't vote for either side because my conscience" and so on.
pecosbob
(7,502 posts)or No Labels is from progressive sources but from conservative elements whose goal is to push the Democratic Party platform to the right. Their goal was to elect blue dogs.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/whos-really-leading-the-democratic-rebellion-against-pelosi/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211469155
George II
(67,782 posts)mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)" the progressive we nominate should also be capable of getting votes from moderates and even republicans."
empedocles
(15,751 posts)OrlandoDem2
(2,064 posts)who such a person would be.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Whats new?
ZZenith
(4,109 posts)No.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Yes. Read our platform. What did you not like.
And BTW. I hate the term progressive. I am a liberal democrat.
Please explain to me what a progressive is versus a traditional liberal democrat.
ZZenith
(4,109 posts)A progressive Democrat works to see that such crooks, such purveyors of misery and deprivation are in jail where they belong.
A progressive Democrat does not play footsie with Jamie Dimon or any of the other TARP crooks who drove our economy off the cliff with their insatiable greed and then stood there collecting their government bailouts with a nod and a wink.
A progressive Democrat has the sense to know that you cannot win the votes of people whove lost their retirements by accepting exorbitant speaking fees from those who stole them.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)That shit sounds stupider every day.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I can read the shit you just posted on any right wing site I could go to. Or anti-Democratic party left wing sights I have looked at.
And a Senator from New York showing interest in an industry that employs hundreds of thousands of her constituents, most of whom vote and donate to the Democratic Party is strange?
And your faux resentment that Hillary did not send people like Jamie Dimon to jail when that was never in her perview or power. Get real. More right wing talking points. Pissed about emails too?
And just curious? Why pick out Jamie Dimon. There were thousands of people that drove us over the economic cliff. Things that make me say huuummm.
I again ask you, what was not progressive(I hate the term, but it seems to be all the rage on DU) about the Democratic message in 2016?
ZZenith
(4,109 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Or today that is not liberal? Or progressive if you prefer that word that carries such a mixed history.
ZZenith
(4,109 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Beause she was just the First Lady. And too liberal.
First serious effort ever to provide health care to all Americans.
Remember that? Because I do. There is your deed. Or was that too corporate as well?
You have bought into the 30 years of right wing hate.
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StevieM
(10,499 posts)or the chosen one of the establishment, you would have told them they were nuts.
Hillary ran on a solidly liberal platform, after a lifetime of pursuing progressive policies.
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)resolved by 70-80% and you can't still believe this is a centrist country. Health care, minimum wage, gun control, voting rights----the list is long. The only reason people say these are wild-eyed and radical ideas is because there are so many of these issues remaining to be solved that anyone proposing them is out of step when they are, in reality ---in step with the majority of the people. Half-way measures will no longer suffice.
Yes, I still hear Bernie talking. Don't you?
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)are liberal with a libertarian streak.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)My conservative relatives love their government benefits. SS, Medicare, unemployment benefits where needed. Will get pissed it you talk about taking them away. And dont much care about pot, birth control or to a lesser degree abortion.
But, oh, they are conservative. Call them a liberal and they get pissed. And they are all white. They are convinced they have earned and payed for those benefits. People of color are always suspected of cheating the system. Racism is still our greatest sin and is still tearing the nation apart.