It took you long enough to support Ossoff, and he lost. Closely. He was always going to lose because the Democratic Party doesn’t have a platform and refuses to become more progressive, but damn, 3 points. Close.
You have a genuine competitor against Paul Ryan in WI-01. He just announced his candidacy today. The video he released is truly energizing. You can pathetically lick your wounds like you did when Gianforte and Trump won or you can start supporting Randy Bryce immediately and loudly.
There’s a few more meaningless special elections this year that you are going to lose. You are going to lose them because you mistakenly believe that these special elections are referendums on Trump. They aren’t. They’re referendums on your platform, because these special elections are about platform, not personality, and it’s obvious that Republican voters are leaving the GOP’s platform in droves but they don’t want yours because you are too cowardly to fight for what’s right at the risk of losing your mealticket.
You are going to lose these special elections, all of them, because you will refuse to be progressive, to truly adopt single-payer healthcare, to combat police violence (and violence against minorities in general), to end income inequality, etc. etc. Voters don’t want to retreat back into the Obama-era version of poor people dying so rich people can line their mansions in gold. But that’s what you stand for and why you will continue to lose.
So the 2018 election has started today. Support Bryce now because at this rate, come November 2018, you’ll be seeing either marginal or no gains or, hell, even losses. If these special elections are referendums on Trump, then you are clearly doing something wrong. The time for wound-licking is over, well past over, and the time to genuflect is now, was summer 2016 when pro-Sanders protesters demonstrated outside the Democratic Convention. But since you won’t reflect, at least use the only thing your craven subservience to the ruling class has given you: money. Use it to try to buy WI-01.
And don’t forget. Time is money.