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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren selling out her progressive principles? [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)22. Sometimes I think "progressivism" is confused with "populism" here
They're not the same thing at all. There can be left, center, and right populism (the Tea Party, for example, is a right-wing populist movement). Elizabeth Warren is perhaps what one might call a "center" populist. I'm not sure she's all that progressive. And you're right, Howard Dean was never the progressive hero people made him out to be. He was a realist governor of a small New England state, who had many good qualities and ideas and also some ones you might need to hold your nose on ... like any politician. Like any PERSON, I should say.
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Natalie Tennant is in West Virginia - she might well be the best you can get there
el_bryanto
Jul 2014
#1
Somewhere along the line we are going to have to learn to get Democrats elected
Thinkingabout
Jul 2014
#3
That's cute. Don't want to talk about the 1980s so you bring up the 1930's!!!!!
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2014
#24
How does a Pro Choice person vote for Anti Choice candidates? For Reagan?
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2014
#20
Certainly you should take her past in view, but what is of main importance is to look
Cal33
Jul 2014
#18
So, a vote for Hillary in the 2008 primaries was a vote for wholesale slaughter?
MannyGoldstein
Jul 2014
#32
I have a hard time believing anyone with a net worth of $15,000,000 who keeps increasing it
Lee-Lee
Jul 2014
#5
The Party can do whatever it wants. Ideally in the primaries we will choose the right candidates
Lee-Lee
Jul 2014
#11
Warren was a Republican during Reagan and Bush 41, when they were viciously anti gay
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2014
#14
Hell no, Elizabeth is drivin the damn bus and it's pullin out of the station . . . all aboard!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jul 2014
#12
No. Because politics is and should be about more than entrenched ideologues.
conservaphobe
Jul 2014
#25