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What about the larger issue? Did down ticket Democrats do more poorly than Joe Biden because people simply rejected Trump but weren't a fan of lefties? Does the party need to remain neo-liberal, triangulating Republicans on issues like welfare (you wanna cut welfare? we'll cut it FIRST!) or should the party recognize that progressive politics is a plus, not a minus? If Biden selects a Wall Street exec as his Treasury Secretary and we continue to focus on making the economy safe for Goldman Sachs again, I fear the future. The rest, to me, is marketing. I feel like the big takeaway is you can compete and win everywhere, even Georgia, but the rules are stacked against the Dems.

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Same complaint the dixiecrats had when FDR shunned the KKK at the 1932 convention/ election and again during Civil Rights movement and after the Boy mayor of Minneapolis ( H. Humpry) read strom thurmond out of the party in 1952 convention.

Oh no can't show support for people of color it will hurt us with the bigots in the south. Just tell "those" people to wait another century, or more, for equal rights. After all equal rights for "those" people is less important then offending the delicate fee fees of our ignorant bigoted base.

Same arguement.

Same false choice.

Same fighting the arc of history.

All for naught.

Appeasement does not work.

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