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With little pre-existing Democratic Party infrastructure in many places and, for now, without a single cohesive candidate to unify the base, upholding enthusiasm “is a really heavy burden to put on the backs of these individuals,” said Dana R. Fisher, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland who has studied the new activism. “People are just burned out and they’re worried,” she said, pointing to the Iowa Democratic caucuses, where turnout was lower than many had anticipated, as evidence.

I'm cautiously optimistic ...

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It is funny because they have been flogging their poor retards to a frenzy every day with a new hair on fire Orange Man Bad for 3 years now. They are burned out when they should be at their freshest. But they are instead shell shocked, battle weary foot soldiers. Think Napolean’s Army returning from Russia. The next 9 months are going to be a heartbreaking slog for them and they have earned every inch of it.

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With little pre-existing Democratic Party infrastructure in many places

The so-called Democrat "ground game" that the corporate media brags about is just a cover story to obfuscate vote fraud.