Forget No Labels. Biden’s Third-Party Peril is on the Left.
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Young Democrats find U.S. support for Netanyahu’s war effort is untenable, potentially costing the president millions of liberal votes.

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The White House, in a reflection of their public confidence (hubris?) regarding the politics of Biden’s positioning on Israel, arranged a call with Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).

Fetterman, who has delighted in trolling left-wing critics by resolutely standing with Israel since Oct. 7, told me young voters should consider the implications of enabling a candidate who would likely given Netanyahu even more of a free hand.

“If you sit this out, or throw your vote away, you now are effectively empowering Bibi, and you’re definitely going to be empowering Trump,” cheeto-man he said.

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We can set this up very directly: it’s us versus them — and us is just voting for us, and them means voting for a third-party or Trump,” as one Biden official put it to me. brump

In the short term, that means seizing on any chance to complicate the ballot access of the third-party candidates freedom-and-democracy and attempting to discredit their motives or at least highlight the less savory aspects of their character.

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Later this year, Biden officials hope to dispatch trusted progressive surrogates to warn against a third-party flirtation — hope you like the Midwest in fall, Senator Sanders! flattened-bernie — and plan to bombard the internet with the same message on digital ads even sooner.

One idea: Enlist a series of sicko-zoomer younger voters who admit to being tempted by a third-party hopeful but explain they’re backing Biden because any other choice ensures Trump’s election. maybe-later-honey

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  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]English
    40•5 months ago

    i sure fucking hope so. i truly believe that the most important immediate goal for a broad left wing mass movement in the united states is breaking the back of the Democratic party one way or another. nothing else can be done in the political sphere as long as this efficient machine of recuperation and neutralization is still standing.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]English
      15•5 months ago

      In 2020, after the Sanders ratfuckimg and it was between Biden and Trump, i always held that Biden was the accelerationist choice. Or at least that hus presidency would be more radicalizing than a 2nd Trump term.

      • SubstantialNothingness [none/use name]English
        7•5 months ago

        Same - the incoming polarization seemed pretty obvious. It’s too bad that it’s all based on partisan lines and not on any variation of their platforms, but it was also obvious that wasn’t going to be the case.

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]English
          9•5 months ago

          Yeah both of those outcomes were pretty obvious, but Dems becoming a full on Blue MAGA party is overall a good outcome. It dispells the notion of “fixing it from within.”

          There’s no way to transform the Dem party, or any kind of path through liberal democracy. There is no “pushing Biden left.” There has been no harm reduction. None of the alleged arguments for why Dems should be supported hold any water anymore. That’s a positive thing.

          No one can make any of those arguments and seem remotely reasonable anymore.

          • SubstantialNothingness [none/use name]English
            5•5 months ago

            That has been my logic, too. But in a more ideal world, they’d actually be open to transformation and this would be a lot less painful. That’s just not the world we live in, unfortunately. We never would have gotten to this point if it was. Still, it’s too bad that’s the case.