Comment by ceejayoz

3 days ago

You know we forced that guy to withdraw his candidacy, right?

After it came out that he might have raped someone.

  • There were a lot of people on the left noting that a totenkopf was a big red flag warning of others lurking. The centrist consultants tried to push past it, as they often do, and that's one of the big issues I have with the Dem establishment.

    Meanwhile, the Republicans elected and continue to rabidly support a court adjudicated actual rapist (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-car...) to the Presidency, who appointed someone with similarly questionable tattoos to be the SecDef (https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191413/peter-hegseths-...). I think I'm comfortable with the contrast.

    • That's insane revisionism. The center Democrats do not support the progressive wing of the party. The DSA types were all in on him and willing to look past just about everything. It wasn't until the actual rape allegations that Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement.

      > Meanwhile, the Republicans...

      Meanwhile, whataboutism.