• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    “[E]xtreme far-left voices gaining purchase over the past year … represent a sharp break from a traditional left wing in American politics,” the July 23 email says. This break, the email continues, has led to the rise of a faction that is both “radical” and “illiberal”

    Oh no, not illiberal! [clutches pearls]

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      represent a sharp break from a traditional left wing in American politics

      Abraham Lincoln literally waged a war against the Southern aristocracy and these guys are complaining about Mamdani opening some grocery stores.

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        Gateway politics. If they let them get away with this kind of public service, who knows what’s next?