(02-13-2019, 10:33 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(02-13-2019, 10:11 AM)TJBender Wrote: I'd have to go digging for the article, but I have seen at least one from the MSM saying that Democrats were looking for someone to run against her in the 2020 primary, complete with those good old off-the-record quotes. If she keeps doing the things she's doing and they are largely ignored, she's just another nameless, faceless first-term rep with lots of big ideas and no quantifiable action, which makes her an easy target. If she keeps being portrayed by the right as some kind of antichrist, it emboldens her supporters on the left to see her as a savior for the Democratic Party...which she's not, although I wouldn't complain if she were to become one. With Trump's outfit running a far-right GOP and the Cortez-led "democratic socialists" running the Democrats, it might finally piss off enough of us in the middle for a third party to emerge.

Your dream of a legit 3rd party is the same dream that the GND is. Is Trump really that far right?

Maybe, maybe not. His rhetoric certainly is, as is his refusal to reject or condemn the alt-right and far right figures and groups that publicly adore him. Agreeing to a spending bill that contains a billion and change for vehicle barriers will help his perception in the middle while decaying it with his base, so who knows at this point?

Please don't compare my hopes for a third party to that Green New Deal mess. My views have about as much in common with Cortez's as yours do with Hillary Clinton.

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