• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What AIPAC is doing here is they see a vulnerable member they don’t like on their issue and they go after them," said a House Democrat.

    The lawmaker added: “Whatever you think of [AIPAC], they’re pretty intelligent. They’ve got some skin in this in the sense that if Bowman wins, that’s egg on their face. They’re very strategic.”

    This is how moderates act when a progressive incumbent loses…

    But if it’s a moderat incumbent, even as shitty as Manchin, the DNC protects them, and untill very recently opened threatened to blackball anyone that came close to a primary campaign against any incumbent.

    Any “party unity” has always been one sided. “Moderates” prefer republicans to progress.

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      4 months ago

      Technically Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Bowman and donated a couple thousand dollars, but he certainly didn’t make much noise about it. I think that was more for deniability after the fact, Jeffries himself is on the AIPAC payroll.