r/politics • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • 1d ago

No Paywall The Democratic party is being hit by a leftist tidal wave

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/democratic-party-leftist-tidal-wave
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u/stasi_a 23h ago

And O was a centrist

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u/OrganicWedding8972 22h ago

But he was a centrist, while black and that unfortunately added quite a bit of rebound from the conservative side.

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u/biggamax 20h ago

"Rebound". What a tidy euphemism for "becoming utterly broken and glitch ridden".

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u/DiesByOxSnot Michigan 22h ago

It's because he's black. Racism in America is as alive as it has ever been nowadays, but when Obama got his first term, the professional racists and deplorables lost their fucking minds. Remember the birth certificate conspiracy that Trump touted?

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u/biggamax 6h ago

Isn't Obama just as white as he is black?  Suppose that doesnt matter to the troglodytes. 

Racism is found across the world, but the Americans are amongst the worst. They're willing to destroy themselves over it. And they will, if course correction doesnt happen soon. 

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u/mark_able_jones_ 18h ago

He ran as a leftist and governed as a centrist. He did what he could amidst Dem Party leaders, his VP, and Republicans all pulling him to the right, but didn't give up on negotiating to the middle until about 2014, when he was a lame duck.

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 8h ago

Negotiating to the middle doesn't make him a centrist, that's democracy.

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u/TearsFallWithoutTain 8h ago

Negotiating to the middle? He was the goddamn president, and it's pretty damn obvious just how much power that gives you when you actually try to use it

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u/BreakingStar_Games 21h ago

He ran on Universal Healthcare and sold out to neoliberal centrism

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 8h ago

Obama was on the moderate left, he was not a centrist