Oh, I agree completely. Beshear thinks he got elected in a red state because he tiptoes around culture war issues and appeals to common ground, but the real reason is because he captured the populist energy of teachers’ unions (not that he did much with it). If he can capture populist energy again (and he could, it’s everywhere right now) he can get away with being a lot more bold, but I’m not sure he knows how to do that anymore.

Even in death he continues to obstruct democracy.

Beshear is governor of Kentucky. He’s walking on eggshells and has been for his entire career in politics.

I get where you’re coming from. I just think people are sick of hearing the argument that we shouldn’t run woman or minority candidates because racism/misogyny will harm their chance of success, myself included. I believe that the number of people who will absolutely refuse to ever vote for a woman or minority is often greatly exaggerated, and the number of people harboring racist/misogynist views who would still vote for a woman or minority in the right circumstances is vastly underestimated. When we talk about why a candidate won or lost an election it’s disingenuous to attribute it to something that had only a minor impact when compared to something that has proven to have had a massive (and election swinging) impact. In the case of the 2024 presidential election that something was Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide, and so it isn’t wrong to say that was the deciding factor in the election and racism/misogyny wasn’t.

What you’re missing is that even racists and misogynists will vote for women or minorities if they say the right talking points. Just look at all the pick-mes on the fascist side. This argument is always trotted out by “centrists” against progressives, but the centrists love to run women and minorities, act like that makes them progressive, and blame racism/misogyny when they lose for being uninspiring empty suits. I’m sick of the hypocrisy.

They’re probably keeping his braindead body on life support. Can’t have him rotting before entering the 3 month window before the election.

If Patriot Front was a state asset then no one would have gone to jail for Jan 6th.

Saying this after they all got presidential pardons is just insulting.

Granted now as an enemy of the State hiding their faces is a necessity because mere associating w/ antifa is a crime.

Antifa is an enemy of the state because the state is an enemy of the people. Also, it truly exposes the hypocrisy of right-wingers like yourself when you celebrate guilt by association with an ideological stance (antifa is not even an organized group) after years of proudly proclaiming yourselves as free speech absolutists. You’re libertarians when Democrats are in power, but fascists when Republicans are in power. Pretty convenient for you guys, huh?

Antifa hides their faces from authorities because they would otherwise be persecuted by the state. Patriot Front has the backing of the state (many of them are police themselves), they’re hiding their faces from the people. Antifa are protecting their lives, Patriot Front are protecting their reputation. One is pragmatism, the other cowardice.

“Old guard” isn’t referring to age, it’s referring to the neoliberal democratic establishment who are currently facing challenges from progressives and democratic socialists. George Santos is completely unrelated to anything that’s being discussed here.

This is accelerationist bullshit. People are more capable of organizing mass movements when they aren’t forced to focus on survival. Organized labor in the US was the strongest it had ever been under FDR’s social democracy. Advancing welfare in a capitalist economy actually heightens contradictions because it becomes more clear to the working class that those things are good and that the owning class opposes it.