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If progressives know how to win elections better than the DNC then why don’t they just win enough elections to control the DNC?

This is my comment that preceded your quote.

The subject is: “why do progressives think they know how to win elections better than the DNC if they have never done so?”

I’m talking about winning and losing primaries. You’re cherry picking examples.

Progressives will continue to lose for this reason.

Multiple progressives lost their primaries recently and blame AIPAC funding. Criticizing democrats for catering to donors. While losing to democrats because they catered to donors.

All while claiming they can win elections better than democrats.

The GOP will also be catering to donors.

You think if we criticize democrats for 3.5 years straight it wont affect the outcome of an election as long as we stop for a few months?

They’ve won the majority of the elections in the last 30 years. So must be a winning strategy.

Manchin and Sinema consistently voted against party lines and were known for being republicans running as democrats. They consistently blocked the DNC. This is a bad faith argument.

How did any progressives get elected if our primaries are unfair?

How do progressives win against the GOP when they don’t play fair?

If progressives know how to win elections better than the DNC then why don’t they just win enough elections to control the DNC?

You really do not get how people vote if you think that's supposed to be a major achievement of Joe Biden's presidency.

Recovering from the pandemic economy is a major achievement regardless of how people vote. Just look at the economies that haven’t recovered. 

Just because many voters have a goldfish’s memory doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a major achievement.

Zakaria's argument is bad though. Look at the graph in that last link. It is technically outpacing inflation, but only barely and at its best point is just matching pre-COVID growth. And summed across the four years, that's still a net negative.

That’s called recovering from the pandemic. To complain about that as if it isn’t enough is disingenuous when the alternative is things getting worse under Trump.

Fareed Zakaria:

Biden, he writes, “presided over the creation of almost 17 million jobs with inflation nearing the Fed’s 2 percent target….wage inequality is down…and wage growth is outpacinginflation.”

The writer of this opinion piece:

‘But the economy wasn’t absolutely perfect so democrats bad!’

Drawing attention to the outliers that vote against party lines is something that is often done by concern trolls to argue both sides are the same and sow apathy for democrats. This is most noticeable around election time.

You may not be trying to do that but your comment resembles what they would say. Usually blaming all democrats for the actions of a few going against the party.

Your quotes are talking about blocking misinformation about COVID.

None of them are referring to blocking Conservatives.

It’s easier to block the truth than accept it.

I consider your overall argument that Trump had been under investigation for January 6th from the very start to be thoroughly refuted at this point

Nope

On U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's confirmation as attorney general, the DOJ opened multiple investigations into events during the closing weeks of the Trump presidency.

Here is your claim:

Trump was not a target of the DOJ investigation until after Jack Smith was brought on board

Here is what even your sources states:

the investigation had expanded to examine Donald Trump's inner circle, with the Justice Department impaneling several federal grand juries to investigate to investigate the attempts to overturn the election. Later in 2022, a special counsel (Jack Smith) was appointed.

Don’t you read your own sources?

This is obvious gaslighting

The immediate part is the section you left off:

to continue two investigations initiated by the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding former U.S. President Donald Trump

Almost all of the folks convicted stated otherwise.

Their statements don’t prove Trumps intent in court. Especially to a judge who favors Trump.

Doesn't sound any more difficult than a nationwide manhunt for someone who defended our nation against a mass murderer... And they seemed to be able to get that wrapped up pretty quickly.

Luigi wasn’t the president. I’m surprised that needs to be explained to you.

I would have loved, had they tried. Garland, however, did not want to launch a case against a fellow neocon.

They did try. Trump blocked the case using his judge. This is the part you’re ignoring for your conspiracy theory.

It must suck to be the AG... Or, perhaps, Biden should have appointed someone up tot he task. Meanwhile, they were investigating thousands of insurrectionists, convicted a bunch, who all stated they were following Trump's orders.

He was up to the task. Trump blocked the case using his judge. This is the part you’re ignoring for your conspiracy theory.

The other insurrectionists didn’t own any judges to block their cases until they became president again.

Yes, I would have LOVED to see him even try to do so... However, he did not want to sic the hounds on a neocon darling like Trump.

They tried to prosecute. Trump blocked the case using his judge. This is the part you’re ignoring for your conspiracy theory.