Waleed Shahid

Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid

The executive director of this organization running ads against Medicare for All and a public option is a Democrat who was Director of Expansion States for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Above all, I commend Bernie Sanders for giving me an answer to those who say American young people see politics as a cesspool of corruption, beyond redemption." -Pete Buttigieg, 2000 https://t.co/GUkSpkkzjs — PolitiTweet.org

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"Candidates have discovered that is easier to be elected by not offending anyone rather than by impressing the voters. Politicians are rushing for the center, careful not to stick their necks out on issues." -Pete Buttigieg, 2000 https://t.co/GUkSpkkzjs — PolitiTweet.org

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It didn't get much attention but @repmarkpocan made a great speech regarding his vote against the resolution condemning boycotts against Israel. "We have a right to question why it is okay to take Palestinian children, or any child, into military court for detention by Israel." https://t.co/ljn6IoMEGN — PolitiTweet.org

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"It has long been held that America's big-tent parties were more pragmatic than ideological. Yet it is for this very reason that factions became the carriers of different ideological currents within the parties." — PolitiTweet.org

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"As the party becomes uncompetitive, a faction is likely to appear in order to try and move the party back into the majority...those in the party that seek to make it more competitive will thus run into the old guard, which often resists changes that threaten its power." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Parties driven by factions are powerful agents of change that can redraw the lines of political contestation." https://t.co/8krsl4U17x — PolitiTweet.org

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"When a sufficient number of party elites form a faction, their goal is to change (or prevent the change) of the values, norms, ideas, expectations, and rules of the political game. In this sense, factions seek to pour new wine into old bottles."" — PolitiTweet.org

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"Factions...articulate positions that are different from the mainstream of the party. The battle between factions and the larger party might be characterized as the struggle for the 'soul' of the party." — PolitiTweet.org

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"A faction is a party subunit that has 1) the ideological consistency, 2) the organizational capacity, 3) the temporal durability to 4) undertake significant actions to shirt a party's agenda priorities and reputation along the Left-Right spectrum." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Other analysts have employed different words...'cliques,' 'blocs,' 'movements,' 'wings...' But all of these terms slightly miss the target...[as they suggest] small tightly bound groups that are short-lived...[and imply] broad, highly diffuse entities." https://t.co/7ciasCbMS3 — PolitiTweet.org

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"[Factions]...have been conveyor belts of ideas. They inject new ideas into the party and refashion old ones to fit their preferences...help shape a party's public philosophy. The party may stand for a few broad things, but factions are devils in the details." https://t.co/enZSDRSemh — PolitiTweet.org

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What Ayanna Pressley is describing here is an ideological faction that represents the base of the Democratic Party. https://t.co/nQABa8g4ie [by @SherylNYT] https://t.co/l0q2G5EBSd — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justicedems: "Speaker Pelosi's role is to build consensus...@AOC views her role as pushing the needle, stretching the conversation, cha… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanlcooper: there is a strong chance Joe that if your public option is any good Marcy's employer will shove her onto it no matter what… — PolitiTweet.org

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RNC OFFICIAL STATEMENT: "Joe Biden's health care plan is a socialist takeover that covers illegal immigrants and will also literally kill you." — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Do you think Democrats should avoid talking about the least popular parts of existing proposals (providing health care for undocumented immigrants) or should actively oppose those parts of the proposals? It seems like they would at least have to inoculate and make the case? — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden's public option (which he really doesn't talk about all that much, preferring to attack Medicare for All) will also be attacked by the GOP and insurance corporations for 'eliminating' people's private insurance when employers switch their employees over to a public option. — PolitiTweet.org

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The public option (which Joe Biden is kinda sorta proposing in his mostly just negative anti-Medicare for All campaign) will also be attacked by GOP and insurance corporations as people "losing their private insurance" when employers switch employees insurance to a public option. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonlovett @HeerJeet I hear what you're saying. But when an employer switches to even the public option than the employees "losing their health care" is still the frame from Republicans. It'll be attacked the same way -- but it hasn't been yet. — PolitiTweet.org

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In 2015, if I said that a 75-year-old white guy with near 0% name ID who was a 'democratic socialist' calling for 'political revolution' taking $0 from corporations and Wall Street was gonna win 43% of the Democratic vote against Hillary Clinton, you would've thought I was nuts. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @allinwithchris: TONIGHT: @chrislhayes interviews Francisco Erwin Galicia, a Dallas-born U.S. citizen who spent three weeks in ICE custo… — PolitiTweet.org

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Campaign in poetry, govern in: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidKlion: “Trump is a criminal but he can’t be prosecuted and what he did is Not Normal but also not impeachable and so you should vo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@lori_kearns @mdb2 @singlepayertom @jonfavs @BernieSanders @PodSaveAmerica “look Lori and Marissa are both hardworking Americans confronting a rigged economy and we must bring them together for a political revolution” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justicedems: "These Congresswomen [@AOC, @RashidaTlaib, @IlhanMN, @AyannaPressley] represent the base and voters who have to be energi… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is also why most modern governments don’t conduct elections in a manner that would allow for such wide discrepancies in how popular will gets reflected. — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s a fundamental tension between 2020 candidates focused on turning Dem non-voters in 2016 into voters in 2020 (e.g., union households, millennials, POC in @RashidaTlaib’s district in Detroit) vs Pelosi + Schumer’s focus on white, suburban moderates and Romney Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

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Very strange considering @KamalaHarris position on single-payer, Medicare for All would upend markets and overhaul entire systems. — PolitiTweet.org