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8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students
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I think they meant to title this "Why these eight lying scumbags need to be primaried to prevent continuing slide into fascism"
Unfortunately Cuellar and Gonzalez won their primaries.
Party leadership showed it preferred Cuellar over any progressive, and it's exactly because of votes like this.
Cuellar was pardoned by Trump and clearly captured. What the hell is wrong with his district in Texas?
The party demonstrated that it will do whatever it takes to defeat progressive candidates, so they stopped running.
Wouldn't a democratic voter pick a ham sandwich over someone pardoned by Trump and has voted in line with everything Trump has asked of him since the pardon? Seems like a good opportunity to get a progressive candidate in there.
The last time a progressive ran against him, the party threw everything it had behind Cuellar. This was before trump pardoned him, but after he made it clear that he was an anti-choice anti-labor pro-nra candidate. Cuellar won by something like 500 votes.
Any progressive candidate has to fight against the Democratic party to win the nomination and then if they win anyway, they have to fight the Republican candidate with a depleted war chest and no support from their own party. Or as Mamdani showed, active antagonism from their own party.
I would have hoped there may have been active antagonism at this point. Cuellar worse than Fetterman or a Republican and squishy brained Dems still voting for him.
As long as the party backs him up (and since he does everything party leadership wants, they will keep doing so) his district doesn't have anyone with the means to fight two major US political parties.
Not to mention, Cuellar has a documented history of corruption. I'm certain he has no problem abusing his office to kneecap opposition. After all, he's a centrist democrat.
Gluesenkamp Perez is almost always on the wrong side of decisions like these. Unfortunately, her district is very mixed and not remotely a Democratic stronghold. A more progressive Democrat would be unlikely to win in her district.