“Ultimately, the electability story peddled by elites undermines our democracy’s dwindling capacity to respond to people’s need for fundamental change. If political parties have a purpose in a democracy, it’s to embody the principles on which the people’s best future can be built. The party then helps the people elect candidates committed to building that future. The system fails utterly when it’s upside down—when we choose “winners” and live with whatever future they deliver.
Unsurprisingly, the targets of the Democrats’ electability narrative were the leftists, socialists, women, African Americans and Latinxs—the candidates commonly deemed “unelectable” and, no coincidence, the ones most committed to disrupting the status quo.”
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There were over 27 million voters who spoke collectively across 45 states to elect a primary winner. That is hardly what I would call a fictional narrative.
..this guy’s got a very dull axe to grind…