And we’ve already seen they’d rather throw an election than let a “progressive” win. Not that Platner is an exemplary progressive, but that’s why he’s the perfect spoiler candidate. Now Democrat wonks can point to this and say “see? Progressive candidates don’t work!”
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It could well be that they vetted him, and found out about all his past, and let him run to discredit progressive candidates as a whole.
The democrats are paid losers so tbh this being intentional rather than a fuck up tracks
And we’ve already seen they’d rather throw an election than let a “progressive” win. Not that Platner is an exemplary progressive, but that’s why he’s the perfect spoiler candidate. Now Democrat wonks can point to this and say “see? Progressive candidates don’t work!”