A write-in campaign for President Joe Biden won the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday, after the state was stripped of its delegates by the Democratic National Committee.

Voters who wrote in Biden’s name beat out Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and self-help author Marianne Williamson, according to three news networks, with early counts of unprocessed write-in ballots outnumbering votes for Phillips by a more-than-three-to-one margin.

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    5 months ago

    To be clear, they’re still less fascist than Republicans…

    More concerning is they seem happy to watch the Republican party become more fascist, because that allows them to also become more anti-democratic.

    As long as they’re slightly to the left, they seem to have zero qualms about how facist they act.

    It’s almost like they want to be fascist themselves and are gladly standing by.

    Which is why not criticizing them just because they’re still better than Republicans isn’t working.

    We need to do what we’ve been telling Republicans voters for decades:

    Hold your own politicians to higher standards.

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      5 months ago

      Are they? The Republican primary is pretty freaking open. There’s a sizable amount of Republicans that don’t want Trump, but they aren’t changing rules to make him lose like the Democrats did with Bernie. There’s definitely incompetence that no candidate could be put forth to oppose Trump, that wasn’t just a different color Trump.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t think y’all are disagreeing much, though there is clearly a difference between Biden and Trump, that doesn’t excuse the DNC for actively disenfranchising progressive voters.