While you don’t need to FEEL the hype, it’s absurd to make a claim that you don’t get it. Let’s look at a few of the things.

Again, no one is calling your candidate a socialist but the opposition. Nobody. If you think that us going away on the internet would change anything, you have misunderstood the opposition.

I tend to think of defund the police as part of reform/“sure we need police but just different police”. And what you are saying as “abolish the police”. I have a hard time imagining a world without law enforcement entirely, and I dont think we need to keep law enforcement the way we do it now.

Stephanie Byres in Kansas is one. Kim Jackson in Georgia. Do some actual research on your own before saying nonsense. Progressives were the one with their boots on the ground, knocking on doors getting their messages out there. Centrist who did nothing but roll over for Republicans don’t get to blame the people who…

Thank you! Can people PLEASE stop talking over the organizers that coined this phrase??? Nobody created it to help Nancy Pelosi win elections so no you don’t get a vote on what it should be called. Especially when your suggestion is THE LITERAL OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE MOVEMENT IS.

I understand your point. My point is people have been saying that for a very long time and it was widely ignored.

What is the point? It seems like the point is this: The fact that a few Democratic members of the House supported defund the police doomed more moderate candidates in swing seats, who were associated with the position of those few members.

I’m sorry that contending with Republican Talking Point makes your candidate feel on the back foot. That narrative isn’t coming from progressives. It’s not one we’re pushing. And we’d never call a socialist a socialist, unless they called themselves one. Progressives could go off and fund communes tomorrow, remove…

Cool, cool, cool. Where was that in Dem platform? Where did AOC and the Squad publish that plank? And where again, did Progressives refuse to vote for Biden and the former prosecutor? Sorry that umm we fucking carried you across the finish line so you can shit on our work while you play armchair quarterback.

I’m sorry…

The overall tenor of the Democratic Party does not support defunding the police. It is not the position of the party’s candidate for president (who won, by the way). It is not the position of any Democrat in any leadership position in Congress that I’m aware of. It isn’t the position of any Democrat who had sought the…

Again, we HAVE been defining what their jobs should be, by continuously defunding healthcare and education and going “this is up to the police now”.

“Let Cops Do Their Jobs”, while defining what their jobs should be would have been better messaging.

Exactly. Progressives win because of their ground game. It's so delusional for centrists to blame their own losing campaigns on progressives who won their own. If your own constituents are confused on messaging, that's your whole fucking job as a candidate to address it.

Instead of demanding that progressives not be progressives, moderates need to do a better job of campaigning.

Except that progressives are winning in swing districts. That’s the point. No progressive is actually out there condemning the centrist wing when the rubber meets the road. The squad lined up behind Joe Biden and mobilized in Michigan and Wisconsin, even though he was clearly not their candidate. Without the…

Imagine losing an election, and instead of blaming the opposition, you blamed your own party... Imagine getting offers for help to organize the activists in your communities and turn out the vote, and turning them down because AOC or Ilhan Omar scared you more than calling out Donald Trump as a racist. Imagine, siding…

So this is just a centrist lie. How do you beat republicans in republican country? By your metrics its to just be republican light? I’ll say it til I’m blue in the face: they ran bade campaigns. Period. Its not about liberals running in safe districts, not if Katie Porter and Lauren Underwood can win, especially…

Wait, hold on, allow me to personally extend my general fuck you to members of this party that are demanding everybody else speak in code to you specifically.

I feel for your friends. Really, I do. As a white woman that grew up in the 80s, I am constantly bewildered by how far we have regressed culturally.

However!

Bla…

No one is telling any member they have to run on defunding the police anywhere.  That is just not an argument anyone is making.  It is centrist Democrats trying to tell progressive Democrats what positions they can have, not the other way around.

The most disheartening thing for me in this particular spat (and so soon after an election victory) is the thought of the young people that were called to action by Bernie, the Squad, Warren, etc and now the party is collectively clutching its pearls.

They can call themselves a centrist, moderate, peacemaker,…