As abortion rights dangle by a thread and some remain disillusioned w/ Dems' progress (or lack thereof), @BarbaraBoxer & @Terryoneill debate: Is the party demoralized or energized? WATCH their exchange with @mehdirhasan, and catch the full convo tonight on @MSNBConPeacock:

May 12, 2022 · 7:37 PM UTC

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A big tent party that tries to squash all progressives. Look at the tricks, PAC’s & Billionaires that come out to stop everyone from Bernie & Nina Turner to India Walton & Jessica Cisneros. They are always up for that fight.
We have #Dem Primaries to pick the best candidate for the General. Problem is the #Dem establishment decides that person must be their current peer🙄? Not so in Oregon's #CD5! @JamieforOregon would MORE easily win in November. #OR5 Dems are ENERGIZED!🔥🗽💪
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God if I have to hear “big tent” as an excuse one more time.
A big tent with those beholden to lobbyists, who are paid to thwart progressive initiatives, ethics, or voting rights is Manchin-light. Perhaps that IS America. IDK, but it leaves it an outlier among peer nations and susceptible to attacks from the extreme right.
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The only people remotely energized by this pathetic carcass of a party are partisan hacks who represent it's rot.
it is so unfair that the republican-lite faction of the party is impeding the advancements that progressive dems could be making. the moderates were happy to -promise- change but they are standing in the way.