In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) indicated that he does not currently support Medicare for all legislation after co-sponsoring similar bills from 2013-2021.
I’ll admit I left the US a few years ago, so I may be a little out of the loop but… what fucking “actual socialist” candidates? Are there more than three yet?
One. My man, at the federal level there’s 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate. At the state level there’s 50 governors and 7,383 total legislative seats.
I don’t think you can blame Democrats for being spoilers to “actual socialists” when “actual socialists” aren’t on the damn menu.
According to Wikipedia there’s 102 DSA-aligned (who are Democratic-Socialists and not “actual socialists”) politicians at the federal and state level. Out of 7,968 seats. Barely over 1%.
I’ll admit I left the US a few years ago, so I may be a little out of the loop but… what fucking “actual socialist” candidates? Are there more than three yet?
No, we had one, last presidential election and Democrats sued and won to keep her off the swing state ballots.
One. My man, at the federal level there’s 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate. At the state level there’s 50 governors and 7,383 total legislative seats.
I don’t think you can blame Democrats for being spoilers to “actual socialists” when “actual socialists” aren’t on the damn menu.
According to Wikipedia there’s 102 DSA-aligned (who are Democratic-Socialists and not “actual socialists”) politicians at the federal and state level. Out of 7,968 seats. Barely over 1%.
So close and yet so far away.