• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    So if this ends up being a witchhunt (I personally think the accusations are legitimate and will be proven to be so, but I’m making an effort to give the other side grace, and I would ask you to as well), and you participated in that, you don’t think that bears a degree of ownership?

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      5 days ago

      I think we may have different ideas of what a witchhunt entails here, but ok.

      Yes, I’d be willing to bear some ownership in Platner being forced to end his Senate campaign.

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        And if it collapses the broader political moment and leaves us in a position where only fascists and AIPAC democrats are allowed to engage in politics? I appreciate you at least answering. I’m not asking these questions because they have easy answers. I’m asking them because their answers are particularly difficult and consequential.

        There can’t be a doubt that this is taking some wind out of the sails of the current political moment, where there was some optimism on the left. I hope that our movement is more robust than that, and I believe it to be so. However, I wont dismiss how entrenched and powerful the existing power structures are. If they can find a way to destroy this movement, they will.

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          5 days ago

          Then I guess we’re back where we started and we build again. This time without candidates that have violent pasts against women and POC.