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The fight is on for progressives to push Biden to the left. They might just win.

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  1. Kuromantis
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    I agree. Biden is clearly a man of compromising and has extended his hand to progressives far more than Hillary Clinton ever did. We should absolutely take it.

    While some “Bernie or bust” keyboard warriors will invariably denounce these progressives as sellouts, and some jaded progressives as naive, they are actually realists who should be supported and strengthened. Few politicians understand the signs of the times better than Ocasio-Cortez. She knows that the country and the party are changing, and she understands that the Covid-19 crisis provides a unique opportunity to accelerate that change.

    Moreover, these progressives realize that Biden does not have a set ideology, but is in many ways an empty vessel whose domestic policies and priorities are still very much in flux and in play. In other words, progressives have two fights to fight: one for a President Biden, against the Republicans, and one for a progressive Biden presidency, against the moderate Democrats.

    I agree. Biden is clearly a man of compromising and has extended his hand to progressives far more than Hillary Clinton ever did. We should absolutely take it.

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