The far right is meeting the far left in Florida, and it's going to be a doozy

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1. Wow, what a biased headline. Andrew Gillum is NOT

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a far left extremist, or even radical. He works for his issues within the system. But if he were, he and De Santis, who is running very hard right/far right would have a lot more in common in personality and ideology than either would have with people who are not prone to extremist dysfunctions.

But that's not the case. I was concerned that all these adversarial farther-left groups were backing Gillum, but I've seen nothing in that even whiffs of "Our Revolution"-degree extremism or adversarial relationship with mainstream Democrats. He takes strongly liberal but still mainstream positions that appeal to many regular Democrats, and throughout his entire political career has worked within the system to harness establishment power, not destroy it.

So it appears his relationship with Bernie Sanders and OR during the primary seems not to be a meeting of "revolutionary" minds, but rather a mutually beneficial one between people who both need wins -- Gillum to have won the primary, Sanders to claim a win for someone he wouldn't have touched in 2016.

Btw, NOW Gillum has to go up against a Republican powerhouse in November. John Lewis endorsed Gillum's opponent as our seemingly strongest candidate, but no doubt his support will be expressed soon. There is an FBI corruption investigation involving a number of people Gillum's associated with, but so far no indication that he is personally legally threatened. We should expect lots of "the innuendo IS the crime" to fly from the right, though.