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sanjukta.bsky.social • 8 days ago

How to do this (or the equivalent - a replacement)? Seriously?

Quinnipiac March 2023: Democrats approve of congressional Democrats by 54 points

Quinnipiac February 2025: Democrats disapprove of congressional Democrats by 9 points

Democratic Party is very vulnerable to a takeover

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corybernstein.bsky.social•8 days ago

Just spitballing but I think you need a small but visible group of current and former reps (especially progressives from red/purple states) running on a clear "line" a la Justice Democrats to endorse a slew of primary challengers to corporate Dems.

corybernstein.bsky.social•8 days ago

The part that seems really tricky is the different deadlines/procedures for primaries. Tho I may be overstating this because my state (NJ) Andy Kim successfully challenging our ballots that made it almost impossible to primary incumbents last year. Now we have a 6 way primary for Gov.

sanjukta.bsky.social•8 days ago

No I think that's very real. The 2016 seth ackerman piece is still really good on this

sanjukta.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's not insurmountable though

corybernstein.bsky.social•8 days ago

It is not! It took years of groundwork but in NJ the party machine has basically collapsed over the past 18 months.

sanjukta.bsky.social•8 days ago

It definitely requires an organized bloc of some kind. We need to pick something and coalesce around it. There are also strategic and tactical questions - but I am more worried that people will simply not agree on a formal vehicle and thus not even try :(

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