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NPR
For Democrats, Pragmatists Are Still Trumping Progressives Where It Counts
NPR
Democrats need to win at least 23 seats to regain a majority in the House and moderate Democrats beat progressives in primaries in all but two of the most competitive GOP-held districts in the country. Progressives are primarily ... Still, progressive ...
Is Ocasio-Cortez a Progressive Paladin or Partisan Poison?The American Conservative

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For Democrats, Pragmatists Are Still Trumping Progressives Where It Counts
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Democrats need to win at least 23 seats to regain a majority in the House and moderate Democrats beat progressives in primaries in all but two of the most competitive GOP-held districts in the country. Progressives are primarily ... Still, progressive ...

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Fabius Maximus website (blog)
About the polarization poisoning our politics
Fabius Maximus website (blog)
Liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats were both forces to be reckoned with in their respective parties and had to be conciliated – often by what was called “balancing the ticket” – when it came to choosing candidates for national office ...

The American Conservative
Is Ocasio-Cortez a Progressive Paladin or Partisan Poison?
The American Conservative
Moreover, down the ballot, in the Bronx, Isacson—being too far to the left even for a liberal district—was defeated by a Democrat. Having been in ... Thus when the conservative Glenn Beck tweeted some guardedly nice words about her, she tweeted ...
Happy Fourth of July! The Story of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals the Power of Good News About “Democratic ...The Intercept
The Left and the Right Have Abandoned American ExceptionalismThe Atlantic
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez too “far left” for America? Absolutely notSalon

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The Hill
Progressives poised to shape agenda if Dems take back House
The Hill
Progressive lawmakers are poised to play a pivotal role in the next Congress if Democrats take back the House in November. That's because a dozen members of the Congressional ... Some congressional observers are predicting that congressional ...

Gainesville Sun
Len Cabrera: Resist through federalism
Gainesville Sun
Fundamentally, the difference between conservatives/libertarians/Republicans and progressives/liberals/Democrats is the basic role of government. One side views government (especially at the national level) as a necessary evil to protect individual ...

New York Times
A Frosty Summer for Alan Dershowitz on Liberal Martha's Vineyard
New York Times
But this summer, Mr. Dershowitz says that because he has expressed views that back President Trump, he no longer feels so welcome on the Vineyard, a summertime epicenter of progressive values, money and sheer Democratic power in the United States. “I ...

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New York Magazine
Are Democrats Crying Wolf on Threat to Abortion Rights?
New York Magazine
As Washington, D.C., girds its loins for the biggest Supreme Court confirmation fight since 1991 (when the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill saga riveted the country), conservatives are already working overtime to lull progressives to sleep by claiming fears ...
There's more to constitutional law than just abortionThe Hill

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GOP lays out Mississippi Senate race strategy: Paint Baria as a liberal, Espy as corrupt
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I'm a Mississippi Democrat. I don't support President Obama or Hillary Clinton.' David is running a very clear, progressive, liberal race. I don't think that's going to be successful in Mississippi,” Smith said. Said Smith: “I don't know Mike ...

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Syracuse New Times
Progressive pushback in the Democratic Party could push out the old guard
Syracuse New Times
Those who disagreed with me were probably thinking in the context of the Tea Party as we know it: an angry, conservative, grassroots movement that opposed the Washington establishment, government spending, the erosion of Christian America and health ...
Did Democrats learn all the wrong lessons from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory?CNN
Ocasio-Cortez's Socialism Can Work in the Midwest — With a RebrandNew York Magazine
The Democrats are having a socialist realignmentWashington Examiner

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RealClearPolitics
Former Liberal to Progressives: Time To "Walk Away"
RealClearPolitics
Brandon Straka says that less than a year ago, he was a liberal. He explains why he changed his mind in this "viral video" encouraging other progressives to "walk away" from the remains of the Democratic Party. "Once upon a time, I was a liberal,” the ...

GOP GRAPPLES WITH TRUMP TARIFFS -- Democratic Senate hopeful ditches Schumer -- TRUMP INTERVIEWS ...
Politico
DEMS USE TRUMP'S SCOTUS LIST AGAINST HIM -- President Donald Trump's pre-election list of 25 conservative Supreme Court candidates has emerged as a double-edged sword. It struck Democrats when Republicans leveraged the Supreme Court as ...

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CNN
Did Democrats learn all the wrong lessons from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory?
CNN
If you look at DW-nominate scores (which put members of Congress on a -1, most liberal, to +1, most conservative, scale) and compare them to the presidential lean of the district, Crowley was a little more moderate than you might expect someone to be ...
Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez signal an earthquake in Democratic politics?The Guardian
Democrats might win by attacking liberalism – from the left and the rightThe Globe and Mail

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The Weekly Standard
The Shape of the Post-Kennedy Court
The Weekly Standard
These commitments have led Roberts, an undeniably conservative jurist, to vote with liberals, and contrary to Kennedy in dissent, in decisions upholding Obamacare, validating state campaign finance laws, and expanding the Fair Housing Act and Fourth ...

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VICE News
Democrats can't decide how hard they want to fight Trump's Supreme Court nominee
VICE News
Progressive groups and liberal activists have already called for party leaders to throw anything and everything behind stopping the nomination from going forward. They want to stir up another rebuke of the president's plans, much like what happened ...
Expect new justice not to be political cronyThe Tand D.com
EJ Dionne Jr.: Progressives Can Win Supreme Court FightHartford Courant
As Trump Consolidates Power, Democrats Confront a Rebellion in Their RanksNew York Times
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Politico
The top Democratic Senate recruit who's ditching Chuck Schumer
Politico
But she has walked a far more moderate path in Congress — sometimes to criticism from her liberal colleagues — joining the conservative Blue Dog Democrats and voting with President Donald Trump nearly 60 percent of the time. Now the ... One ...

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GOP lays out Senate race strategy: Paint Baria as a liberal, Espy as corrupt
Mississippi Today
... Democrat. I'm a Mississippi Democrat. I don't support President Obama or Hillary Clinton.' David is running a very clear, progressive, liberal race. I don't think that's going to be successful in Mississippi,” Smith said. • Remind Mississippians ...

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Vox
Court-packing, Democrats' nuclear option for the Supreme Court, explained
Vox
To many leftists and left-liberals, such drastic action is needed if any progressive legislation in the future is to survive. ... In shifting the Court from a potential 5 to 4 liberal majority to a 5 to 4 conservative majority, the Republicans ...
Could a new court-packing scheme save the Supreme Court from hard-right domination?Los Angeles Times

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CBS News
Commentary: Are Democrats about to hand the GOP another 1968?
CBS News
Not because the Vietnam War was popular, or Americans were experiencing a conservative revolution (that wouldn't happen until Reagan in 1980). And it certainly wasn't Nixon's charm and ... To paraphrase Barry Goldwater, extremism in defense of ...

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NBCNews.com
Alabama Democrat Doug Jones walks tightrope with Trump and his own party
NBCNews.com
And despite having cast more votes in the Senate in support of the president's agenda than all but three of his Democratic colleagues, Jones has yet to build a solid bridge to the majority-Republican electorate that would help his re-election prospects ...

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