The GOP's once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a "coup" that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democra...

The GOP’s once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a “coup” that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator. Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the chamber. Initially styling himself as a working-class progressive champion, he has since made a major shift away from his own party, voicing support for various initiatives and nominees from President Donald Trump and breaking the Democratic minority on several key votes.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    3·
    20 hours ago

    I’d LOVE for that to happen, but in the Senate I don’t believe it will. The HOUSE races will be a bloodbath of epic proportions though!

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s a long progress and will take a couple cycles.

      The only way we fuck it up is if a neoliberal wins the presidential primary due to depressed turnout.

      If that happens, they’ll likely still win the general,but then they’ll hand the party to a neoliberal who will go back to fixing primaries.

      That’s why there’s already a big push against the DNC by billionaire owned media.

      Like, imagine the type of DNC chair someone like AOC would nominate (officially there’s a performative vote).

      The way to get that tho, is getting someone like AOC thru the Dem primary, not around it.

      Ironically enough, it’s the plan for actual Marxist-Lenism

      Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.[12]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism

      We just have to make sure we don’t hand the keys to the bus to someone like Stalin at that point in the game…