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I totally agree with this (moving more from DSA territory recently to anarchist communism, myself) I have a feeling that the lincoln project's goal is not just

I totally agree with this (moving more from DSA territory recently to anarchist communism, myself) I have a feeling that the lincoln project's goal is not just to get Trump out, but actually to instigate a coup within the dem party, give up some on abortion/2a to keep the neoliberal / centrist status quo. Mark my words in ten years, the dems will move more right, I wouldn't be surprised to see Kasich and Romney as democrats. The left will be regrouping, and the far right, well they'll be hiding from the FBI mostly (at least the terrorist factions). I mean, think about it. The dems are the epitomy of Reagan republicans. If you wanted to reboot the insanity that is Trumpism, all you'd need to do is get a significant number of fiscal republicans to become democrats, and run as democrats, and maybe embrace a 'few' social programs to 'appear' democrat enough.

pksebben 6y ago
...I would argue that this has already happened. Consider the Green New Deal - absolutely a leftist document. Half the Democratic party immediately jumped down AOC's throat and jumped on the "come on, be reasonable" bandwagon. Not so many years ago, our candidate was Gore. Gore could have written the GND himself. There is no party for the left. There is center and right and (currently in the white house) extreme right. Which we're now calling alt-right, while there's absolutely nothing 'alt' about it.