Chris Van Hollen is the son of American diplomats, ran as the more moderate candidate for MD-SEN, defeating progressive Donna Edwards. He formerly ran the DCCC and DSCC. He's hardly some kind of fire breathing progressive.
He just has actual ideas unlike Chuck Schumer.
The American people voted for change. They want a Democratic Party that will stand up to powerful special interests, take on the billionaire class and fight for working families.
That is why I am supporting Senator Chris Van Hollen to lead Senate Democrats.
I'll ask @mattyglesias again: if he's right that Democrats have always consistently espoused economic populist messaging, then why did only 19% of Senate Democrats run against billionaires in 2024, compared to 78% today?
So now voting for the IRA is peak economic populism, is it?
Manchin specifically opposed taxes on billionaires - he objected to Biden's tax on billionaires. I cited two of many examples.
You have basically emptied economic populism of all meaning if your argument is that Democrats from Bill Clinton to Joe Manchin have all been economic populists.
This is gaslighting of the highest order.
We're supposed to pretend that the Dems who won last week are all mini-Manchins. Beyond parody.
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