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Every Single Participant in NYT Focus Group Preferred Progressive Candidates Over Moderate Ones | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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Feb 18, 2026

The newspaper spoke to 13 Democratic and independent voters including retirees from Indiana and Michigan, working people from states such as North Carolina and Nevada, and an unemployed voter from Iowa. The topic of discussion was the participants’ frustrations with the Democratic Party as it faces the Trump administration and the president’s aggressive deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the country.

“Spineless” was one word a participant had for the Democratic Party when asked to describe it. Another said the party appears “paralyzed” while a 46-year-old Latina woman from Nevada said Democrats in Congress are “sellouts and suckers.”

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yet, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, the party continues to back neoliberal corporate-whore proto-fascists like shumer, because the majority of the party are financed and pre-positioned by the oligarchy; not the people.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

No moderates, you say? Better tack further right!

Schumer, probably

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Scroll of truth.