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kleinbl00  ·  2 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On the Democratic Party's Cult of Powerlessness

Danielle Allen did a series of ten pieces for the WaPo but they didn't exactly set the world afire.

I'll say this: WA state does jungle primaries, which helped contribute to outcomes like this:

Our Trump-annointed gubernatorial candidate was Semi Bird, who walked out of the primary with 11% of the vote (even though the Republicans had registered five candidates with the same name as the Democratic candidate). The most contentious and expensive race in Washington was for Commissioner of Public Lands, primarily because the Republican who was running was a big timber shill who got primaried for impeaching Trump.

EDIT: hot off the presses