Originally Posted by
Levelfive
You're half right--the radical right, which has really had a hold on the Republican party for decades, needs to be wiped out (to be clear, I mean psychically and in terms of their access to power, not physically). But there's no lucid comparison to be made between Bernie Sanders and his supporters and Stephen Miller and his supporters. Progressives, which I'm distinguishing from Democrats, have been right on pretty much everything: we've been right about Social Security, expanding Medicare, women's right, civil rights, reproductive rights, lgbt rights, voting rights, equal opportunity, healthcare, sex ed, segregation, etc., etc. And a majority of the country agrees with us. Even the stuff Republicans were ostensibly good at, like the economy, they fucked up--"trickle down" and austerity have repeatedly proven to be dogshit stupid destructive policies, aside from being cruel and punitive. Moderate Democrats gave us things like DOMA, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, GLBA, the crime bill, etc.--and they were wrong. We are in complete agreement that this is triage and that nothing is more imperative than removing Trump from office, but the problem for decades has been ever-more radicalized and conservative Republicans who now feel so emboldened, they're not even embarrassed, let alone ashamed, to let their nazi-adjacent flag fly. Trying to equate that with people who support M4A and free college--which works just fine in other countries which happen to be doing very well--is just deeply unserious, if not fucking preposterous.