There's no discrediting the centrists
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It’s a golden age for dragging centrist pundits right now. Democrats lost another election, and lost badly, and lost in obvious lockstep with centrist politics. Kamala Harris fled any semblance of a populist message almost immediately, hugged big business and Never Trump Republicans, and openly abused left pro-Palestine activists — and all of this demonstrably contributed to Trump’s win. To compound their error, centrists are in complete denial about all of this and seem to think that they can speak an alternative reality into being. That’s how we get posts like this:
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