Justice Democrats
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Justice Democrats
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| Founders |
Cenk Uygur Kyle Kulinski Saikat Chakrabarti Zack Exley |
| Founded | January 23, 2017 |
| Split from | Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Ideology |
Left-wing populism Progressivism Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left to Left-wing |
| Slogan | "Democrats that represent people, not corporations" |
| Subset of | Democratic Party |
| Seats in the Senate |
0 / 100
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| Seats in the House |
1 / 435
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| Website | |
| justicedemocrats |
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The Justice Democrats are a political action committee founded on January 23, 2017, by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk, and former leadership from the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. The organization, formed as a result of the 2016 United States presidential election, has a stated goal of reforming the Democratic Party by running "a unified campaign to replace every corporate-backed member of Congress and rebuild the Democratic Party from scratch" starting in the 2018 Congressional midterm elections.
The Justice Democrats have been attempting to create a left-wing populist movement, Co-founder Kyle Kulinski describes Justice Democrats (and himself) as pushing for social democratic ideas, particularly a system similar to the Scandinavian model. In a segment about an international poll on happiness, Kyle says, "Notice anything about [the countries on the top of the list]? First of all, the overwhelming majority of them are the Scandinavian countries, the Nordic countries. Which, I don't know, we talk about on this show maybe more than anybody else talks about them on the planet. [...] It turns out social democracy is wildly popular. [...] In other words, it's a healthy mix of socialism and capitalism, and you regulate the capitalism to make sure there's no abuses, and you have a rising standard of living and everybody's happy."
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