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Blue no matter who. Its a call to action/ solidarity to support any or all Democrats and is typically associated with "centrist" or "moderate" positions within the party. Specifically, it was the rallying point that was used as a cudgel to silence any criticism of Harris or her approach to campaigning in the 2024 campaign, that if you were to highlight the insufficiency of her campaign or make statements like "I don't think Harris can win if they don't xyz", you would be accused of being "against Harris" or "pro Trump", and this was specifically from the Blue MAGA/ BNMW contingent. Its now a part of lemmy-lore how moderators sided with this crowd, banning anyone critical of this view and silencing voices through out.
Classic examples of this would be jimsantanko@lemmy.ee and flyingsquid@lemmy.world
Its also, at least somewhat interesting as an aside, that after the bankrupt-ness of their ideology came upon full display after the failure of the Harris campaign to secure the election, many of the accounts expressing this view disappeared like farts in the wind (while for years they had been accusing the other side of being bots or shills). A good example of an account still active and expressing these views would be satansmaggotycumfart@piefed.world / satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world
Outside of lemmy, good examples of this view point can be found on podcasts like "Pod Save America", or in clips like this one, where Jon Stewart explains the ideology most clearly:
And here is worked example, where Whoopi Goldberg says she would vote for Biden even if he was shitting his pants on stage (go to ~25 seconds in for the quote):
I also think that the kym article is pretty solid: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blue-maga