‘Failure of Epic Proportions’: Cenk Uygur Concedes Defeat For Dems in Midterms

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The Young Turks founder and host Cenk Uygur predicted on Twitter Tuesday that Democrats will lose big in next month’s midterm elections.

The far-left host conceded defeat three weeks to the day before voting begins, citing the party’s “failure” to pass a voting rights bill.

Uygur later fired off a pair of additional tweets in which he attempted to explain his rationale:

Uygur has been a consistent critic of how Democrats have approached the midterms. This summer, he accused the “fake left media” of insulating Republicans from criticism.

“Things get even more confusing when you now have a whole wing of the fake left media where they tell you all the things that are wrong with the Democratic Party, as we do,” he told radio host Dean Obeidallah. He added:

Their job is to create hopelessness and to make sure that you don’t vote for anyone, just stay at home so that Trump and fascists could win. We’re not in that camp at all. We hate that here. The answer is actually very simple and very obvious, but it’s kept from you assiduously by the mainstream media, who are the worst of the worst. They are corporate media.

And corporate media supports corporate politicians. Their number one source of revenue is money in politics, it’s the ads the politicians spend on their channels and their networks. So what is the secret that they keep from you? It’s called primaries. So you must primary every corporate Democrat. You must fight back against Democrats within the Democratic Party.