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cop-disliker69:

kontextmaschine:

So with the 2022 election putting up the offices that weren’t up in the direct aftermath of the 2020 street unrest, it’s looking like the trend will continue and the result of all those lefties’ efforts to challenge the status quo of local government power might be that not only does Portland City government complete purging itself but that Oregon elects a Republican governor for the first time in decades

Isn\u2019t the Republican gubernatorial candidate only viable because some centrist Dem is running a spoiler campaign as an independent?

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Yes, Betsy Johnson is indeed running a “non-Portland Oregon Democrat from the good old days like the ‘90s, with a base of rural extractive industry and workers” campaign, the fact that this represents a real voter and donor base that is defecting from a state Democratic Party increasingly aligned with national issues and trends and becoming a sub/urban professionals’ party with postmaterial interests is in fact a factor but that’s not exactly an “only because” caveat, if anything the 2020 mess was the realignment trigger there

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