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Exactly, people tried that shit with Carney up here and we all knew we were not getting a progressive PM but we sure as hell didn't get a right wing mini trump.

Could we have gotten better? For sure but desperate times man, desperate times...

Yeah I might not vote for him in the primary but its not a deal breaker.

I fully expect to see a repeat of 2020. The party establishment will be split between Elderly Nepo-Ghoul With Fanatical Partisan Following and Young Pretty Boy Who Says Progressive Things To A Room Of Millennial Age Investment Bankers.

On the edge of the debate, you'll see a few genuinely progressive leftist voices saying things like "We should be against genocide" and "Homelessness is easily solveable if we put forward even the least amount of political capital" and "Granting DC statehood is the most obviously smart and moral Act any future Congress can pass". Maybe even a few "Medicare 4 All is still a good idea" die-hards shouting from the extremely cheap seats.

And then one (or both) of the insider candidates will pick up a few of the more popular slogans as their own. This, while denouncing any of the fringe voices as Anti-White Racists, Politically Toxic Far-Left Anti-Capitalists, Eco-Terrorists, and Fat Ugly Unfuckable Losers.

Come primary day, said fringe leftists will do shockingly well in some of the early states. At this point, the centrist candidates will panic, drop the kabuki of intra-party squabbling, align behind whomever the current Party Elder tells them to select, scream that a vote for Fringe Candidate is a vote for Fascism, blanket the airwaves with a deafening smear campaign, disavow every nice thing they said up until this point, and maybe squeak in to the convention by a few points on a technicality about who gets to be Superdelegates.

The Convention will be a coronation of a rotten corporate homunculus. Any leftist disgusted by the process or the annointed candidate will be denounced as a Far-Right Foreign Plant designed to undermine the fundamental principles of democracy itself. Said rotten homunculus will pick a Token Minority/Progressive as their running mate, then immediately dump that person to the sidelines and campaign exclusively with the reanimated corpse of Rush Limbaugh.

Trump wins by a ten point margin in 2028. Leftists are blamed for the loss. Democrats vow to purge their party of anything resembling progressive values or human decency even harder. By 2032, they're running a Bitcoin Billionaire in an uncontested primary, because it's unreasonable to trust an election process that's been infiltrated by Hamas.

This is exactly why they'll run him.

Remember when we were told that we could criticize Dems during non-election years?

Or primaries were the time to have debate, but I guess that too has gone out the window with the DNC tiping the scales since 2016.

Clearly you are in favor of an oceanic based monarchy.

2028 has to be about people on the right and left joining together to repudiate fascism and totalitarianism

The Harris thinking Cheney would sway voters pipeline again? Oof.

The right does not think this is fascism. So, there goes that fantasy.

There has to be economic pain so bad that they can't refute it anymore. That's our only hope.

That or Trump dying before the end of his term.

The gerrymandering that Gavin says will happen in California is going to be voted on in November, it will probably not happen.

I will say this. They aren't waiting until November 2026 to vote on it. So they're at least pretending to take this seriously.

But I'll also say that some right-wing court is going to decide the ballot measure is unconstitutional. And the California Dems are going to throw up there hands, announce collectively "Oh well we tried!", and then find a way to blame Transgender people for the Permanent Republican House Majority.