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dems and their classic strategy of spending millions unseating progressives in their party while ignoring races in rural states. just so they can either keep a slim majority and have an excuse to do nothing or lose and have an excuse to allow republicans to adjust the genocide dial
It's easier when you think of them as the required "good cop" for the good cop, bad cop routine.
She is the conservative force for some progressives find tolerable enough to abandon more radical measures.
She doesn't want to be progressive, she wants to be conservative, but sees her role as selling that to liberal minded people.
Another analogy I like is that they're the boxer in a fixed fight who's paid to take a dive or the heel in a pro wrestling match who does just enough
to be villains for all the slobbering hogs watching the fight and thinking it's real
this is a good one. ive seen ppl (i think chapo) use "kayfabe" in a political context and i like that a lot
Funny because I remember people angrily saying that she was more left than Bernie and had real plans for change.
The change in question being carpet bombing Syria.
Land war in Iran