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What?
The current DNC chair has a better progressive track record than Obama.
And Martin didn't wait to hype up Mamdani either. He won't endorse before a primary is settled, but within days he was saying Mamdani is what the party should be because that's what Dem voters want.
Obama's big progressive claim to fame, is a more progressive version of a health are bill than Mitt Roment was gonna pass.
And what is this about?
Obama abandoned the DNC rather than put someone who would run it how he wanted at the helm, which led to a bankrupt but neoliberal DNC who took Hillary's offer of funding for control of the DNC during the primary.
Which blocked Bernie.
And led to Hillary losing in the general to trump.
For fucks sake "co-opt what he created"...
Do you know how much better we would be if Obama had just named anyone who wasn't a neoliberal as chair of the DNC in 09 or 13? We'd be coming off two Bernie terms and probably in AOCs first right now.
Covid would have been handled rationally, healthcare actually sorted. Climate change and wealth inequality addressed, even police abuses.
It ain't simple cause/effect but it's not rube Goldberg either, people should be able to put this together