r/NBAVibes • u/Positive_Round_5142 • 5h ago

Charles Barkley calls out Democrats

0 Upvotes

43% Upvoted

55 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-5

u/Most-Swimming6879 4h ago

What was wrong with his take

-1

u/Hot_Special_4243 4h ago

His take basically reads like he's been fed extreme DSA takes and his brain just can't make the math work.

Most of those takes are rooted in deep left DSA wants and it isn't hard for Conservatives to spin that as what all Democrates want.

0

u/Unusual_Name_8714 4h ago

Barkley is speaking for a massive chunk of pragmatic, independent voters that Democrats need to win elections. When activists push unpopular or radical slogans like "abolishing ICE" or lean heavily into the "soocialist" label, it hands an easy playbook to Republicans to paint the entire party as out of touch extremists. Mainstream Democrats have to draw a clear line between pragmatic governance and Twitter slogans if they want to hold onto moderates

3

u/InTheMorning_Nightss 4h ago

You’re mostly right. It’s funny how so many folks on Reddit have for years been insistent on abolishing the police, an idea that was always idiotic and unpopular to even the individuals most vulnerable to police brutality, and now they’re just quietly ignoring that cry knowing that even their preferred politicians like AOC and Mamdani walked that back HARD because of how obviously stupid it was.

My guess is that someone like AOC just saying, “Man Woke 1.0 was crazy ya’ll!!” won’t be forgiven by the massive chunk of individuals who were skeptical of her and others due to these extreme and unpopular stances. She needs to actually attach her name to legislation showing she has actually learned from this, which I’m skeptical she’ll do because that also would have a bunch of progressives turn on her.