"It's far from clear that the DCCC's policy will even succeed on its intended. The small-dollar donor armies that have freed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the burden of fundraising and filled the coffers of Bernie Sanders's nascent 2020 campaign aren't going anywhere. And neither are progressive interest groups like NARAL Pro-Choice America, which backed Marie Newman's attempt to oust pro-life Illinois Democrat Dan Lipinski last year. The DCCC can't eliminate the demand for political operatives who are willing to assist left-wing primary challenges. And by limiting the supply, the Democratic establishment threatens to give a monopoly to its most ideologically committed adversaries, and thus, accelerate the growth of upstart firms like Grassroots Analytics and Data for Progress."
The Democratic party of today is not the Democratic party of the early 1990s when it shifted its focus away from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society toward more a corporate-friendly agenda following the 1980s' Reagan revolution.
Even before Donald Trump descended that Trump Tower escalator in June of 2015 to declare in a racist anti-immigrant screed he was running for president, the political sands were shifting.
People had figured out nothing was going to structurally change with the economy, environment, education, healthcare, or campaign finance as long as we kept coddling transnational corporations with tax breaks, subsidies, deregulation, and anti-worker trade deals even Democrats at times supported.
This is what fomented the Occupy Movement, which segued right into the rise of the progressive movement that allowed a septuagenarian Democratic Socialist from Vermont the voice he always had to project Americans' discontent with being shut out of the democratic process.
Poll after poll proves the majority of voters in this country favor a Medicare-for-All-type single-payer healthcare model similar to what is practiced in Canada.
Most Americans want public colleges and universities to be free or at least debt-free.
Only the fossil fuel industry and the shills lying for them deny the exigency of climate change. The entire world has recognized we are on the precipice of a climate apocalypse and wants governments to begin taking aggressive measures to address it. The United States is the only developed nation dragging its feet.
People want to strip politics of its dark money donors so our elections are once again truly Democratic.
The list goes on.
So, here we are.
But a caution: Let's not get bogged down in a false equivalency.
Voting Democratic is still better than voting Republican. The idea they are the same is an absurd fallacy.
The Democratic party is still the party of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare, civil rights, marriage equality, public education, unions, and criminal justice reform.
Just look at how many bills the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has passed since taking back the majority in January.
The Republican party, by contrast, is the party of tax breaks for the ultra wealthy, deregulation, environmental degradation, voter suppression, xenophobia, Islamophobia, unregulated gun possession, and "Christian" evangelicalism.
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