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Peggy Flanagan wants new Senate Democratic leader to replace Chuck Schumer
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Quick reminder that Minnesota is a state with a left party independent from the DNC.
They caucus with, and accept money from the DNC, but the DFL has always been slightly more to more progressive than the DNC.
And the person who ran Minnesota's DFL for a decade has been the DNC chair for like 21 months...
A big reason why this wave was not only huge, but full of progressives...
Minnesota is a unique state looking at it. Something about it.
Significant rural population that almost exclusively votes conservative (for reasons that don't entirely make sense). From what I hear, there are a LOT of anarcho-communist groups throughout the state. They take education and hunger seriously. There's a LOT of really rich people though.
I strongly believe thats why Walz and the State were targeted so hard by Trump. A state that naturally opposes authoritarianism is an anathema to the regime.
It's not natural...
It was a red state when Martin started running DFL
He turned it purple then blue because he stopped standing in front of progressives and focused on fair primaries so the candidates most popular with dem voters made it to the general...
And what happened Tuesday nationally, was what happened in Minnesota.
It's not a fluke, it's not anything "natural" about Minnesota, it's the simple fact that progressive policy is what voters want.
And the voting members of the DNC realizing that, is why they picked Martin for DNC vhair. To do nationally what he did in Minnesota: stand back and let voters pick their candidates.
Wow, never had heard of the DFL, but now I read the wiki, and that is a pretty cool history...at least before they got a bit more conservative in the post-war period, but still cool!
I think its neat because progressivism isn't a faction, its the platform.
Very proud of my state