The GOP's once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a "coup" that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democra...

The GOP’s once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a “coup” that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator. Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the chamber. Initially styling himself as a working-class progressive champion, he has since made a major shift away from his own party, voicing support for various initiatives and nominees from President Donald Trump and breaking the Democratic minority on several key votes.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    15 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s a long progress and will take a couple cycles.

    The only way we fuck it up is if a neoliberal wins the presidential primary due to depressed turnout.

    If that happens, they’ll likely still win the general,but then they’ll hand the party to a neoliberal who will go back to fixing primaries.

    That’s why there’s already a big push against the DNC by billionaire owned media.

    Like, imagine the type of DNC chair someone like AOC would nominate (officially there’s a performative vote).

    The way to get that tho, is getting someone like AOC thru the Dem primary, not around it.

    Ironically enough, it’s the plan for actual Marxist-Lenism

    Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.[12]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism

    We just have to make sure we don’t hand the keys to the bus to someone like Stalin at that point in the game…

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      2·
      14 hours ago

      The Party needs a lot of power to keep the capitalists from making a comeback. They will inevitably abuse that to keep their in-party enemies (e.g., Trotskyists) from getting any power. And eventually they will realize that it’s hard to get absurdly rich on communist labor alone, so they’ll allow capitalism back while maintaining one-party rule and political repression of the masses.

      Source: Russia, China, Vietnam