Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for costing the party

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61. Centrist Dems cite red scare as reason for no blow out.

Meanwhile, the GOP wholly embraces Russian election interference, Russia being the source of the historical Red Scare. Once again, we are allowing the GOP to define us when we eschew words like socialism. It's a fearful stance, letting others define us. I think we need to embrace the socialism frame, much like some Blacks have embraced the N-word, homosexuals embraced the term gay, and/or the way Native Americans have at least accepted the word "Indian" as it's used in relation to them. As usual, the suppression of words is the suppression of ideas, it's a form of tone policing, and it discounts the lived experience of millions of Americans. We'd do much better to embrace "socialist", to own it and flaunt it. I think it's our concessions to the center and the right that kills us.