Human beings are social animals. We feel comfortable when we feel welcomed, and run away when we're greeted with indifference or disdain. I remember joining Mensa at age 12. I was excited to attend my first meeting. But when I walked in, it was a cocktail party. Everyone was old. No one talked to me so I left and never went back. We were all smart but that wasn't enough to make me want to hang out.
Progressives and liberals may both hate Trump but that doesn't make them political allies. As even right-wing Democratic Times columnist remarked: "It is simply a fact that leftists, as well as the generally disaffected, need to be courted just as moderates do." But the establishment right-wingers in charge of the Democratic Party are not only not courting leftists, they keep actively snubbing and insulting them. They've even renewed the last election cycle's "Stop Sanders" propaganda campaign. Stopping progressives Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren appears to be the raison d'Ã ªtre of Joe Biden's last-second candidacy.
Democrats' dismissive and condescending treatment of the Squad sends a clear signal to progressives: We don't like you. Go away.
They will.
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