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Berniecrat Overperforms HUGE In Deep Red State
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April 17, 2017
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5:32Now PlayingThe Democratic party establishment could have pushed James Thompson to a victory, but they did nothing. On the latest episode of Aggressive Progressives Jimmy Dore and Steve Oh discuss the recent election in Kansas. Watch the full Aggressive Progressives episode here
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Jimmy Dore and Steve Oh skype call Nomiki Konst for this week’s episode of Aggressive Progressives. They discuss all things Governor Cuomo.
"Since losing the presidency to a Cheeto-hued reality TV host, the Democratic party’s leadership has made it clear that it would rather keep losing than entertain even the slightest whiff of New Deal style social democracy.
The Bernie Sanders wing might bring grassroots energy and – if the polls are to be believed – popular ideas, but their redistributive policies pose too much of a threat to the party’s big donors to ever be allowed on the agenda.
Even a symbolic victory cedes too much to those youthful, unwashed hordes who believe healthcare and education are human rights and not extravagant luxuries, as we saw when the Democratic establishment recruited Tom Perez to defeat the electorate-backed progressive Keith Ellison for DNC chair.
The Democrats demonstrated this once more this week when, in a special election triggered by Trump’s tapping of Mike Pompeo for CIA director, a Berniecrat named James Thompson came painfully close to winning a Kansas Congressional seat that had been red for over two decades, and his party didn’t even try to help him."*
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