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Democrats Are Dumping Moderates
NRO | 15 July 2018 | John Fund

Posted on 07/16/2018 12:13:20 AM PDT by lowbuck

Edited on 07/16/2018 8:12:17 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

But promoting socialism, sky-high taxes, and open borders is probably not going to help them trounce the GOP in November. The activist base of the Democratic party is lurching left fast enough that everyone should pay attention. Activists matter because their turnout in low-turnout primaries and caucuses almost propelled leftist Bernie Sanders to victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseated New York congressman Joe Crowley, the No. 4 ranking House Democrat in a low-turnout primary. She benefited from organizing support from the Democratic Socialists of America. Leftists have also upset establishment Democrats in statewide primaries for governor in Colorado and Maryland.



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Another view of how the mid-terms are shaping up. Seems the Democrats are, once again, leaving many of their supporters behind. Enjoy
1 posted on 07/16/2018 12:13:20 AM PDT by lowbuck
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To: lowbuck

Forgot the link: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/democrats-dump-moderates-move-to-far-left/


2 posted on 07/16/2018 12:14:04 AM PDT by lowbuck (The Blue Card (US Passport) Don't leave home without it.)
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To: lowbuck

That’s okay. Conservatives apparently don’t want them in the GOP party either.


3 posted on 07/16/2018 12:17:10 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: lowbuck

bookmark


4 posted on 07/16/2018 12:27:21 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: lowbuck

bookmark


5 posted on 07/16/2018 12:29:37 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: lowbuck

More like the Moderates are #walkaway Walking away !


6 posted on 07/16/2018 12:44:09 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (;I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.” Sherlock Holmes)
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To: lowbuck

Communists, Marxists, gather around!
Sell your "freebies" to the greedy and lazy.
Take caution to sell surreptitiously because those taxpayer suckers might revolt.

7 posted on 07/16/2018 12:52:44 AM PDT by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WIINNING WAY)
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To: lowbuck

The new democratic socialists platform...

“We are socialists because we reject an economic order based on private profit, alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, disability status, age, religion, and national origin, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo. We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships. We are socialists because we are developing a concrete strategy for achieving that vision, for building a majority movement that will make democratic socialism a reality in America. We believe that such a strategy must acknowledge the class structure of American society and that this class structure means that there is a basic conflict of interest between those sectors with enormous economic power and the vast majority of the population.”

Every democrat running for office should be asked if this is what they believe.


8 posted on 07/16/2018 1:05:59 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: lowbuck

DiFi “moderate??!?”

/giggle


9 posted on 07/16/2018 1:27:10 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. #FreeTommy)
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To: CatOwner
GOP party

You know the P in GOP stands for party, right? :-)

Excuse me, gotta go to the ATM machine.

10 posted on 07/16/2018 1:38:49 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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FiFi is a “moderate” because she only wants to steal some of your stuff.

A true “progressive” wants to steal all your stuff.

A “radical” wants to send you to a concentration camp after they steal your stuff.


11 posted on 07/16/2018 2:19:29 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: lowbuck

Say what you want, four or five or six elections from now all of these nut bags are going to be completely mainstream and they will start to be elected.


12 posted on 07/16/2018 2:59:55 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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Conservatives apparently don’t want them in the GOP party either.

The entire "leadership"( I use that term loosely) in the US house and senate are made up of what I consider moderate Democrats with R's by their name. The Republican Party of 2018 is philosophically the Democrat Party of say circa 1988.

13 posted on 07/16/2018 3:20:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: lowbuck
Democrats Are Dumping Moderates

So are Republicans.

14 posted on 07/16/2018 3:39:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Not really.


15 posted on 07/16/2018 3:39:59 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: lowbuck

Looks like the battle lines are becoming more clear.


16 posted on 07/16/2018 3:57:09 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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Democrats: You’re either with “us” on the hate train or you’re against us and we hate you too. Bullying blackmail.


17 posted on 07/16/2018 4:14:49 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: lowbuck

The harder to the left the once democrats, now progressives, go, the bigger turn out for conservatives to repel the attack on our country!


18 posted on 07/16/2018 4:38:14 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: onyx

These radical things that are taking over the democrat party want to control all human activity, seize your 401k - your life savings, kill you children before they’re born, take away your property. Then take away your right to vote, tear out the 1st and 2nd amendments of the BoR,and give it all away to felons, freaks and foreigners. That’s just for starters.


19 posted on 07/16/2018 4:39:22 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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moderate Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein

Right. This statement alone tells you how far left the Democrats have gone, because Feinstein is ANYTHING but a moderate.

20 posted on 07/16/2018 5:05:03 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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