Democrats are a Shontel Brown party stuck in a Cori Bush world.
That’s the conclusion to be drawn from a week in which a pragmatic Democratic candidate (Brown) achieved a come-from-behind primary victory against a left-wing Bernie Sanders acolyte (Nina Turner), all while Democratic leaders fell all over themselves to praise one of the party’s most extreme members (Bush) for her successful push to get the Biden administration to extend its pandemic moratorium on evictions. …
What’s remarkable is that the party’s indulgence of Bush comes when the momentum is squarely with the moderates. In nearly every intraparty clash this year between moderates and progressives, the moderates have decisively prevailed—all in some of the bluest turf on the national map. CONTINUED
Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
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