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In reply to the discussion: Talarico wins Texas Senate Democratic nomination while Cornyn and Paxton head to Republican runoff [View all]displacedvermoter
(4,197 posts)entities and then run a "religiously" framed political campaign are kind of playing fast and loose. Especially gambling money donated by someone who has gotten a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump.
And yeah, I guess you can compare him to Clinton, or Obama for that matter. Smart and ambitious and hard working, moderates whose pussy footing with big business and finance -- Clinton's -- and willingness to let Bush-era war crimes and corruption go unpunished -- Obama's -- helped to put us in the current state of things.
I hope he wins, I really do. I understand he is as progressive as we can hope for, the great Beato buildup having long passed. But I loathe the idea that we need a religious revival in the Party, especially one funded in part by Las Vegas MAGA money.