House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has said that he now opposes Medicare for All, flipping on his previous stance just as Democrats are on the cusp of potentially winning back control of the House. Medicare for All is “not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support,” Jeffries said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Jeffries declined to say…
He’s like best friends with Chuck Schumer. Too many people associate “being kind of ethnic looking and nominally on the left” with being progressive, or actually leftwing. They’re not the same thing.
Unfortunately you have to check, so get used to looking into people.
The DNC used him as a token for the public to accept the politics of old white men.
The funny thing is he even started himself a progressive black Democrat when first elected. He clearly isn’t.