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grubbyweasel @sh.itjust.works

10mo ago

Democratic donors prop up far-right candidates including Wisconsin gun activist in Senate race

Democratic donors prop up far-right candidates including Wisconsin gun activist in Senate race

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girlfreddy @lemmy.ca

10mo ago

Democratic donors prop up far-right candidates including Wisconsin gun activist in Senate race

apnews.com /article/wisconsin-senate-election-democrats-far-right-4e473639f23c257096684d83146d6e1f

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Just to be clear, these are donors acting individually rather than a coordinated effort by any Democratic party.
- I mean did you even look up what you are wrongfully proclaiming as fact?
  
  I just love these "confidently incorrect" moments. Did you read the article?
- which means the Democrat and Republican Partys' actions are coordinated based on the donors' wishes not the people's
  
  That's...not at all what that means.
For those who didn't skim the article, they're donating to far right candidates in primaries hoping it will make Republican chances of winning lower.
- Fuck this kind of political gamesmanship. We need ranked choice so fucking bad.
  
  Man, I'm not sure it would help when half the country doesn't believe Trump tried to overthrow democracy.
- That's the same strategy that brought us trump, right? Go dems! lmao.
  
  Outside of Trump this strategy was largely effective.
  https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135878576/the-democrats-strategy-of-boosting-far-right-candidates-seems-to-have-worked
Yep, let's pay to ensure the Overton Window keeps moving to the right. Sounds clever.

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