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Voting uncommitted in a primary isn't going to help Trump. After election, after election, after election, where we've been desperately trying to tell angry, fed-up voters that the time to express that is in the primary, and they have to vote against the worst candidate in the general election, turning around and telling them now that they can't even vote how they want in the goddamn primary absolutely will help Trump.

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Nevermind the idea that one reviewer is somehow sufficient, this sounds like pure fantasy. Did you forget a "/s"?

You must do what you feel is right, of course. I disagree that it is inevitable, I disagree that there is nothing you can do, and as I said above, I doubt that, should it happen, anybody will be safe, anywhere; but I wish you and yours safety and peace, wherever you go.

He can play two roles, it's not as simple as either good or bad. Capitalist Democratic leadership that is dedicated more to controlling the party's left wing than defeating the country's extremist right wing has and does enable fascism. This isn't even a remotely controversial take, historically speaking. Trump owes his first presidency to the likes of Clinton and Obama, and yes, Joe Biden, who had had a long career of neoliberalism.

That said, while Biden hasn't been, by any means, a perfect president, he has been far better than I expected, possibly the most progressive president since LBJ. And he is standing, albeit somewhat vaguely, between Trump and the Whitehouse.

But stopping Trump isn't going to stop the slide into fascism. It can only, at best, delay things until the next election. To do that, we need a strong progressive movement to send a true leftist coalition to take over DC, and set a national tone and direction that moves away from the fascist ledge.

Fascism is on the rise globally. If enough decent people leave the US, we will fall into a fascist regime, and it will be the beginning of World War Three, with the US leading the equivalent of the Axis powers. No place in the world will be safe for you or your children. That's the hard, honest truth.

It's a primary. If Democratic leadership has moved on from telling people that they have to get behind the nominee in the general election, to now telling people that that can't even vote against the candidate the elites have selected in a primary, they are effectively working for Trump, and tanking the election.

Guillotine isn't on the ballot.

Democratic leadership telling people who are upset with their chosen candidate that they can't even vote against him in the primary is a direct attack on democracy, and absolutely the best way for them to get Trump elected.

No, a statement against democracy, and the exact kind of rhetoric that will get Trump reelected. If Democratic leadership is telling people they can't even vote against the chosen candidate in a damn primary now, they might as well come out and endorse Trump themselves. It's obscene.

OK, but it's an important distinction, when you say:

The Democratic Party's ambitions extend no further and never will.

If, in that context, you mean the people who control the party, that's fine, you are correct, but other people are likely to hear that there is no hope of ever changing the direction of the party apparatus itself. We can see from the Republican party that it's not impossible to seize control of a major party - Trump and his maga cult did it. Bernie almost did, twice. We can take the reigns and steer the party where we want to go.

A large part of the intent of the survey seems to be to tease out some understanding of what people actually mean by the term. Polls have limits and can be bad, but I think this one provides some good insight into how to communicate about these issues, and how worried we ought to be, or not be, about public support for Christian nationalism. I think, in part based on this survey data, that a lot of people are likely to support Christian nationalist candidates, despite not being Christian nationalists themselves, only because they hear the same rhetoric that you and I do, and interpret something very different. I think this is a good indicator that reaching out to educate people about what extremist Christians are really saying could go far to prevent a christofascist regime.

The people who control the party fight progressives and capitulate to Republicans. Of course the people who control the party are going to fight us to keep control of it. It remains the only viable tool to win in general elections. Blaming "the party" is like being on a losing football team and blaming the ball.