Just saw a popular person on Bluesky say Democrats have to give us a reason to vote for them

[Celerity]

27. That is the stance that many progressive bashers take. Their 'perfect' is no progressives elected, not even in deep Blue

places. That outcome is their 'purity test' (another of their favourite attempted slag-off memes they use against progs).

You see multiple members (and ex members) of the Problem Solvers and the Blue Dogs take these sort of oppositional stances (to one degree or another), as well as ultra rich donors and RW funded (whether to a large degree or fully) orgs/PACs that dip into Dem primaries and then generals to try and kneecap progs.