Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028
John Fetterman, the maverick Democratic senator who has provoked widespread anger by increasingly siding with Republicans, is to be challenged for his Pennsylvania seat by a democratic socialist candidate who is originally from Gaza.
Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028, when Fetterman’s seat is up for re-election.
The move is the first sign of Fetterman’s weakened position in the party since the Democrats won back control of the Senate in last week’s US midterm elections, when the party won at least 54 of the upper chamber’s 100 seats.
Most here understand that the Tea Party was astroturfed — arguably the very first movement to fully take advantage of Citizens United v. FEC.
That said, I understand their sentiment.
There is a way to push the buttons of populism for good, and Democrats are doing so. Except this time, it’s a genuine grassroots movement, not necessarily requiring the Epstein Class of billionaires to bankroll them.
That’s why I’m saying it’s the opposite of the tea party movement. And entire party based on manufactured lies and bankrolled by the Koch’s. The entire ensamble of the “grass roots movement” was made up by weekend warriors who could barley read let alone know what the fuck 1776 was about or what’s in the constitution. I could understand their sentiment if they said it was the opposite of what the tea party was.
Doesn’t seem that black-and-white to me. The movement was catalyzed by the likes of the Koch Brothers, but it did ultimately become somewhat self-sustaining. Tea Party did become maga after all. Both represent populist movements relative to their end of the political spectrum, which means they can’t really be opposite in this respect.
That doesn’t mean they are equidistant from truth in a false equivalence fallacy; both are wrought from a dissatisfaction with the status-quo and corruption in Washington (“Drain the Swamp”). It’s just that one is Left, and one is wrong in their approach to the solutions.
Though I get that we don’t want to necessarily associate such a movement at all with the Tea Party from a marketing standpoint, as that’s often a comparison made in bad faith in corporate media.
Side note, but my what Occupy Wall Street could’ve become had it had the same sort of catalysts and party-backing…
Occupy could have changed the course of the world is Dems had sacked up and not been corporate shills.
The “movement” wasn’t just catalyzed by the Koch’s it was manufactured and bankrolled. It was “self sustaining” until the money ran out and Donald Trump appeared on the scene and mutated the whole thing into the murder hate treason cult that started to attract people hithrto had nothing to do with politics until the tea party turned into the kill and imprisons people I don’t like because they are different and I’m an idiot party which was really the tag line all along; violent xenophobia and racism. I remember it’s beginning and transformation into maga. And throughout the entire way it has been propped up by prominent monied business leaders the entire way through. It literally shares nothing in common with the progressive movement and comparing the two as like with like is not only disingenuous but revisionist.
I was pretty involved in my local city’s protest on this and I mostly agree with respect to Occupy. I think they were so shy and naive; Obama’s tepid approval was the best they got, but even back then we know who controlled the airwaves — especially two years post-CU decision. Democrats felt like they were in a good spot and sealed the deal for years to come and we just had to “be patient,” but you know how that went… Pissed me off. No use of bully pulpit to pressure from the top left right-wing media to do its thing and eviscerate the movement.
Worth noting that Trump was there since the early days of the Tea Party; I remember arguing with Tea Party members about how Trump was right about Obama’s birth certificate. He was an enormous catalyst to that conspiracy theory bullshit as well. They were always the same people sadly.
I think we’re talking past each other slightly on this. Nobody – literally nobody – disputes that Tea Party platform is polar-opposite to the demands of even SocDems let alone DemSocs; we’re just stating that the astroturfing worked because it tapped into a dried kindling already yearning for ignition. Catalysts aside; platform aside, both are populist movements who reshaped the broader party and suppressed moderates in their own party. Where Tea Party moved Republicans right, DSA can move Democrats Left. That’s pretty much where the similarities begin and end I’ll agree.
I remember the correspondents dinner or whatever it was where he clowned Donald Trump. I was much much younger then but it was like gangs of suburban dads roaming around with guns and total psychopaths. I don’t know if I would call it a populist movement because the whole thing was, in my opinion, and fever backlash to a president being black. I men the party just didn’t make any fucking sense.