Paine
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You’ve got no idea what a progressive would do in a general election because we haven’t had one.Do you have any idea how many people you lose when you try to fire up a liberal/progressive base? It's a lot. It's quite a lot. Now, maybe you pick up more than you lose, but you lose a TON when you move to a more liberal/progressive platform. If progressives won't turn out to support a moderate candidate that is MUCH closer to them than the alternative, why do you think moderates will turn out to support a progressive who is just as polarizing to them as the alternative?
I’m so fucking sick of liberals thinking they know everything about what the general electorate wants when we haven’t had a progressive populist candidate in the general election in my lifetime. Meanwhile a progressive populist came within a hair of knocking off an incumbent Republican in a ruby red state.