Democrats Are Moving Left Without Self-Destructing

[DonViejo]

May 12, 2018 at 7:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“During the first years of the Obama presidency, the Republican Party found itself out of power in Washington—and went to war with itself. Right-wing insurgents, mobilized under the Tea Party banner, brought out the knives against fellow Republicans deemed insufficiently conservative, particularly in party primaries and often with disastrous effect. Angry voters nominated a succession of hard-right candidates who took down more electable incumbents, inhibiting the party’s efforts to win back the Senate for six years even as it won control of the House in 2010,” Bloomberg reports.

“Democrats, likewise shut out of power in the early years of the Trump presidency, face a similarly rebellious activist flank that risks pulling their party to an unelectable extreme by defeating Establishment-friendly candidates. But so far the left-wing ‘resistance’ hasn’t sparked an intraparty civil war so much as a genteel coffee-table discussion. During the first big wave of primaries this month, Democratic centrists did something their GOP counterparts often couldn’t during the Obama years: They survived. Instead of nominating radical outsiders, voters mostly went with moderate incumbents. Putting off any significant discussion about what the party truly stands for is just fine for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who on May 8 said at an event in Washington, ‘Just win baby.'”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/12/democrats-are-moving-left-without-self-destructing/

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

1. MISCHARACTERIZATION - not "moving left," just reclaiming old traditional dEM platform of

voters rights/civil rights /womens rights/ labor/ conservation-environmentalism

Certain fundamental progressive views used to be considered center or maybe center-left not too long ago. Really, if we're going to be tweaking the meanings words - its the DEMS who ought to be portraying themselves as conservatives (in the true sense of the word) fighting to maintain established policy/status quo.

While its the radical far RW that is bent on destroying/reversing 100+ yrs of history..

That's how I see it. Some young pup born post-REAGAN may not immediately get it, but could be educated.

[Sherman A1]

2. Agreed

Well said!

[Greybnk48]

3. +1000!