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Corbyn subs who's-who

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:50:57 +0000

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Corbyn subs who's-who
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-14/life-after-corbyn-the...

Not just "the left" but as

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 23:06:06 +0000

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Not just "the left" but as regards all of em:

With Iowa looming and impeachment sucking up mindshare, time grows short to knife one’s opponent https://t.co/5Oh9OTu42L
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 13, 2019

related @ Politico Magazine:

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:21:13 +0000

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related @ Politico Magazine:

Dean Couldn’t. Hart Wouldn’t. Should Warren and Buttigieg Change Tactics?

By Bill Scher, Dec. 12

College-educated, affluent white voters often rally behind the Democratic presidential candidate who finishes second. We asked previous runners-up and their top aides if they had advice for how to do what their campaigns couldn’t: win.

How the Cool Kids of the Left Turned on Elizabeth Warren

By RUAIRÍ ARRIETA-KENNA, Dec. 8

The socialists of Jacobin magazine used to treat her like a promising alternative to Bernie Sanders. Now they write as if she’s almost as bad as Joe Biden. What gives?

related at Politico.com:

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:12:16 +0000

In reply to The left's nightmare scenario

related at Politico.com:

Warren vs. Buttigieg feud creates an opening for Biden in Iowa by Marc Caputo & Natasha Korecki, Dec. 12

It's not unlike 2004, when John Kerry surged to a surprise win in the state as Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt did battle.

Warren unleashes on Biden and Buttigieg as campaign gets real By Alex Thompson, Dec. 12

Her offensive in a Thursday speech in New Hampshire is one of a number of tactical shifts for the campaign.

The left's nightmare scenario

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:07:31 +0000

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The left's nightmare scenario is looking more believable

"The Trailer" political analysis by David Weigel @ WashingtonPost.com, Dec. 12

When the Center for Popular Democracy Action endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), it made several arguments at once. First, Sanders had embraced the left-wing coalition’s immigration stance — a moratorium on all deportations — and Democrats needed to follow him. Second, Sanders was in a strong position to beat President Trump if he became his adopted party’s nominee.

The third argument, according to CPDA’s co-president, Ana María Archila, was more of an “intervention" for fellow left-wingers. “We wanted to propel others to jump in,” she said. “We cannot sit on the sidelines as we watch this primary play out and allow a neoliberal be elected. If we stay divided, the corporate Democrats will pick the nominee.”

That was the left's nightmare scenario, and it was getting more believable at the worst possible time. The year began with a weak-looking Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) posing no threat to Sanders; by summer, Warren had jumped past Sanders and the rest of the field. Now, with Warren's momentum fading, the two Democrats most broadly acceptable to the left have been splitting endorsements and capturing separate swaths of the electorate.

Centrists who had worried about Warren romping in Iowa and New Hampshire are less nervous now, with South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg surging in those states and former vice president Joe Biden holding his lead in upcoming Southern primaries.

"The far-left bloc is smaller than the candidates expected," said Jim Kessler, the co-founder of the business-friendly centrist group Third Way, which Sanders feuded with this summer. "They haven't expanded their base. It feels a lot like 2018: The left was ascendant, and then suddenly, when voters came in, they voted for mainstream candidates."

The primary debate has moved further left than Third Way wanted. No leading candidate has embraced the ideas, like a "small-business bill of rights," offered at the centrists' conferences. Buttigieg, who has been attracting most of the left's fury recently, has embraced some of its less economically disruptive ideas [....]

Made me check whether AOC was

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 03:31:33 +0000

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Made me check whether AOC was commenting on the Brit election. She did, this morning:

This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States.

The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives.

The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!pic.twitter.com/N5JYaVGCBs
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 12, 2019