… As the 2018 nomination season gets underway, analysts anticipate a network of insurgent candidates and activists to seek a liberal purification of the Democratic Party, in the same way that Tea Party members took aim at a detested Republican “establishment” via a series of formidable primary challenges and congressional leadership battles. Yet there has been no evidence of a national, ideologically motivated rebellion among Democratic primary voters, interest groups or donors.
The lack of a “liberal Tea Party” reflects a fundamental and longstanding asymmetry between Republicans and Democrats. CONT.
Matt Grossmann & David A. Hopkins, New York Times