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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why aren't the "progressives" who are going after Harris, Booker, Patrick, and Pelosi [View all]
going after Pence and Kasich instead?
If 2016 taught us anything, it's that the media likes to co-opt a troubling narrative about Democrats, spin it into a standard script, and then present it as deep and meaningful analysis over, and over, and over again until it feels like obvious truth.
Why aren't people who are ostensibly on our side writing this script about the truly dangerous Pence and and the faux-populist Kasich?
Cui bono?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/us/politics/2020-campaign-president-trump-cotton-sasse-pence.html
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/john-kasich-donald-trump-gop-2020
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Why aren't the "progressives" who are going after Harris, Booker, Patrick, and Pelosi [View all]
lapucelle
Aug 2017
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Ha perfect picture for someone attacking Harris, Booker and Patrick doncha think????
lunasun
Aug 2017
#30
They ARE RW trolls. And Russian bots and other assorted nogoodniks, more likely than not.
calimary
Aug 2017
#29
Look back at my posts and tell me which one you are referring to. You can't because there isn't one.
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#41
Actually, most are asking what entitles this guy to claim that he speaks for the left?
lapucelle
Aug 2017
#44
I know why. Only, it's probably best if I don't say... for obvious reasons.
NurseJackie
Aug 2017
#26
My view, one that I have read here is that the abortion issue can be mainly seen as men wishing to
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#53
Since Booker, Harris and Pelosi all support ending federal cannabis prohibition, maybe their critics
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#56