#LOTS to say about this but ultimately i think it's a healthy debate between centrists & progressives

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Not only is this take boring and predictable, it’s also just plain wrong.

Democrats won the presidency by approx. 4 million votes and counting.

The Senate was a long shot for Democrats in 2020 in the first place and we flipped two seats (Colorado and Arizona) and Georgia was so close that it went to a runoff, so control of the Senate is still up in the air.

And so the only real “loss” we suffered was that, I believe, 8 Democratic seats in the House were flipped to Republicans. It’s worth noting that Dems still maintain a strong majority.

And as AOC explained on Twitter yesterday, many of the moderate House Dems who lost were the ones who failed to invest in digital advertising. Many politicians and their advisors still cling to TV ads despite the fact that there was a pandemic and everyone was online, like, all the time. As she also pointed out, every House candidate who ran on Medicare for All won their district. 

So there is literally no valid argument that being more moderate will help Dems. 

This is not to say that progressive candidates can win in every district! But moderate Dems have no right to say that progressive campaigns aren’t working, and until they fully invest in digital advertising, good polling, and join the rest of us in the 21st century, they can’t claim that they lost just because their colleagues made them look too progressive. That’s just pointing fingers when they need to do some self-reflection and improve their campaign instead.

broke: asking Democrats why they didn’t win back the racist white people

woke: demanding that Republicans explain why they elected and stood behind an unpopular fascist whose lies and incompetence cost the lives of over 200,000 Americans, and why they can’t win a majority of voters making under $100,000/year, and how they will make amends to voters of color, and

(...Like. Biden won by approx. 4 million votes. That’s a mandate to carry out his broadly popular agenda.

Republicans lost. They’re the ones who should be asking themselves where they go from here.)