The Democratic Party’s Leadership Is Trying to Destroy Progressives
Progressive candidates have established a few tenuous footholds in recent years. Democratic leadership and their corporate donors are now doing everything they can to destroy those progressives.
Then vice president Joe Biden and then president Barack Obama look at an app on an iPhone in the Outer Oval Office, on July 16, 2011, in Washington, DC. (Pete Souza / White House via Flickr)
Republicans want a revolution, Democrats want to go to brunch — that’s been a concise way to understand American politics, but 2022’s primary season has made clear it is not exactly accurate.
Democratic leaders don’t just want avocado toast and mimosas — they want an outright counterrevolution. Only not against the GOP insurrection — against the Democratic rank and file, and in many cases for the politicians most hostile to the party’s (purported) agenda.
Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sounded an important alarm about all this, slamming billionaires and conservative advocacy groups blanketing the airwaves with television ads supporting corporate candidates in this week’s pivotal Democratic congressional primaries. But the Vermont senator understated the situation.
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