Young Turks founder decries lack of progressive voices at Democratic convention

[brooklynite]

The Hill

Young Turks founder and host Cenk Uygur said the Democratic Party made a “mistake” by failing to include more progressive voices in its four-day national convention that wrapped up Thursday night.

The progressive political commentator told Hill.TV on Friday that while he still predicted a “landslide” victory for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in November, he said the Democratic Party missed an opportunity to motivate voters by not inviting more progressives to speak.

Some progressives argued during the convention that members of the more liberal wing of the party, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y), had been short-changed on speaking time in favor of Republicans, such as former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

“They’re like, ‘Oh, by the way, for half our party, we don’t care and we’re not going to really show you much, but here's a lot of Republicans,’” Uygur said. “I think that was a mistake.”

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. John Kasich??

[samnsara]

2. maybe they forgot the convention was about biden? I thought the convention was...

..uplifting and full of hope.

[Amishman]

16. The convention is also to set us up for winning the election

And moderates and independents are a much larger voting block than progressives - especially in swing states.

I think we struck a very nice balance.

We also need to take the senate. What states are in the spotlight for that? Maine, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona. Leading with a progressive platform and image is not going to help us in those critical states.

Plus any progressive voter who would remotely consider not voting this time around when the stakes are so high has some screws loose upstairs.

[Raster]

3. Cenk who?

[mitch96]

15. Another one who should just shut his pie hole and go away... nt

[beachbumbob]

4. Unger is nuts thinking 1/2 of "our party" are in the same vein of "his" type of progressives

and the way typical fringe elements think inside their bubble. What works in New York deosn;t work in the Midwest, the southwest, southeast, the south, all areas e democrats MUST win back at every level of government

the damage that Unger did to democrats in 2016 will never be forgotten

[JHB]

5. Who?

[hlthe2b]

6. Why do we give Cenk the time of day? He's no friend to either mainstream Dems OR the far left.

He's a blustering, big-mouthed misogynistic and racist (Armenian genocide-denying) conservative wolf in "Progressive Sheep" clothing.

His misogyny alone should have Dem/Progressives running from him.

He's demonstrably no better than Nina Turner.

[still_one]

14. Exactly. He is a misogynist sexist asshole

[NanceGreggs]

7. That's the same Cenk ...

... who, after Biden had clearly beaten Bernie for the nomination, said no one would be seeing Biden again anytime soon because the Dems had to hide his dementia from the voters.

[JHB]

9. And LOUDLY repeated every bullsh*t claim about Hillary

[DFW]

17. Not coincidentally the Republican/Fox line

My Turkish is far from fluent, but I know that the "c" alone is pronounced like an English "j" making his name properly pronounced as "Jenk." I think I would modify that to "Jerk."

And at age 50, he might consider dropping the "Young" from his brand name, while he's at it.

[Itchinjim]

8. Shut up, Cenk.

[rickyhall]

11. Maybe better luck next time. We must beat trump!

[eShirl]

12. Cenk is a progressive now?

[Cha]

13. cenk's a Loser & kicked out of "justice dems" for being a

misogynist and racist.

[Gothmog]

18. Who cares what Cenk think?

[jayfish]

19. He And Krystal Ball Are The Absolute Worst. -NT-