As usual, the MSM are ignoring some of the most important realities of the midterm elections.
Let's start with Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of the DCCC losing his election. Maloney, a centrist Pelosi favorite, was picked because he was a centrist. What kinds of stupid idiots in the Democratic leadership picked a guy who would lose his congressional seat? Answer? The same ones who proposed or bought into the idea that centrist, Republican-lite Ohio Democratic senate candidate Tim Ryan would be the model for the future of Democratic Senate campaigns. Maloney, of course, blames AOC and progressives with a Republican talking point, accusing them of wanting to"de-fund the police, and suggesting that it scared off suburban housewives." Of course that's just not true. Exit polls found that crime was very very low in voters list of concerns. But expect more blaming of progressives by centrist losers.
I haven't seen a single mention to the fact that every one of the six members of the "Squad" of progressives won their elections, and Fox news opined that there would be four more joining their ranks. They are
Summer Lee, of Pittsburgh, who AIPAC poured millions into trying to defeat. Lee is extraordinary, and probably left of all the original four squad members. She picked up a Republican-held seat with a 55 to 44 victory.
Greg Casar, Texan son of Mexican immigrants, who's been characterized as a socialist, but then again, Fox characterizes all Democrats as socialists.
Maxwell Frost, the first Generation Z to be elected to congress, at 25, he kicked butt in his Florida election.
Delia Ramirez won her Chicago seat, becoming the first Latina to represent the Midwest in Congress.
Ten members of the squad, a growing power base that can and will be making a difference, standing up to the neoliberal, petrified Democratic leadership of Pelosi, Hoyer, Schumer, Clyburne and their ilk.
The Democrats could have done much better if they'd allowed more progressives to win primaries, instead of literally putting influence money into defeating them so they could install hand-picked, obedient, centrist Repubican-lite candidates. They could have done better if they'd embraced the kinds of policies that The Squad and Bernie Sanders espouse-- Medicare for all, a living minimum wage, criminal justice reform, ending corporate personhood, getting corporate and big money out of politics, making real equal rights a reality, taxing the rich, dealing with climate change, gun regulation, voting rights, and I'll throw in bottom-up and indigenous worldview approaches to thinking about economics, governing, education, and change.
But no. The story should be that it was the Progressives who took Republican seats, Progressives who held seats that special interest groups attacked with millions in ad funding, Progressive policy that was embraced by independents.
The blaming progressives for not winning more has already begun. Expect more.
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