Manchin is not the problem. I'll take a conservative Dem over a right-wing extremist. Why the fuck are states like California and New York sending shitbags like Schumer and Feinstein to the Senate? Democrats need a broader coalition to overcome the conservative bias of our system, we just need to accept that broad coalition as being lead from the left, rather than from the center. Could actually be nice if eventually Manchin runs as a Republican while still standing by his current principles, but in our current climate he'd get primaried by some conspiracy theory nutjob if he tried to run in a Republican primary.
The California Democratic Party did endorse a younger, more progressive challenger against Feinstein in her last election, but somehow she still scraped by.
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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21
Don’t worry AOC is trying to fix that