Democrats Are in for a Tough Midterms. For Progressives, It’s an Even Steeper Hill To Climb

The lefties were supposedly taking over the Democratic Party. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders—officially an independent—sparked the surge, coming shockingly close to beating Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential nomination. Two years later, the Squad rode the progressive momentum into congressional wins stretching from Minnesota (Ilhan Omar) to Michigan (Rashida Tlaib) to Massachusetts (Ayanna Pressley) to New York (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). In 2020 Sanders tried again but centrist Joe Biden beat him fairly easily; in House contests in safe Democrat–leaning districts, though, Cori Bush (Missouri), Marie Newman (Illinois), and Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones (both New York) defeated moderate rivals to keep… Read Full Article