"The next little thing about this vote-for-the-lesser-evil trick, of course and this is no secret to anyone any more is that it drives all the "serious" candidates toward what is commonly referred to as the "moderate center," even if these serious candidates aren't, in fact, moderate or centrist in any meaningful sense and the so-called center moves further to the right with each election cycle. For nearly two decades now this process has been steadily advancing on the Democratic side, as liberals are trained to accept the idea that the national majority will never accept a true labor party, or any candidate perceived as "soft" on defense."
Matt Taibbi
Matt doesn't spell it out completely but what he is saying that Moderate Democrats are not the lesser of two evils, they are just as evil as tRump and they will get even more evil the more you vote for them because they will keep moving further Right.
So….if you undermine Moderate Democrats running for office enough times, and they lose enough elections, the Party will learn its lesson and let Progressives take over and run a true Progressive candidate for POTUS.
What Matt doesn't take into account, or he if he does, simply doesn't care, is that most Moderates view many Progressives as every bit as evil, and just as big of bullies, as MAGAs, and that if AOC ran against tRump for POTUS, many Moderates would vote for a shaman, a porn star or a former child actor instead of either of them.
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