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if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA

literally this is their problem, it's not that voters are all of a sudden significantly more progressive it's that they are incandescently angry at what this administration has been doing and they are looking for someone who will punch them in the mouth DSA candidates are promising to do so

DSA candidates are promising to do so, mainstream dems are *actually* doing so. Schumer and Jeffries have repeatedly humiliated the Congressional GOP to a halt.

Procedural maneuvering sadly does not make for snappy short form video content, so these efforts go unappreciated by many voters.

I think the problem lies in that being good on social media and being a good legislator are very different skill sets, and there's very few people in the overlap on that venn diagram willing to work as a politician.

Yeah, this is almost 100% on the fact that a decent chunk of primary voters suddenly flipped over 10 years to wanting their politicians to be poasters instead of legislators and providers of constituent services.