It is pathetic that there is no news about the midterms on the front page

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The Democratic mainstream was never extreme - that has always been a right-wing propaganda point, but you are generally correct. They are, as a party, trying to distance themselves from "leftist" and "progressive" politics, disavow trans rights and "woke" and rebrand as the sensible center-right alternative to Trumpism.

And that's why they will - as they always do - somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We need an actual leftist party that actually defends the values they espouse, not a center-right party of neoliberal Quislings so desperate to impress the cool kids that they'll throw an election just to defend genocide.