| The division of the Democratic policy world between progressives and pragmatists inherently portrays progressives as naïve idealists whose goals are unattainable. Rather than contrasting progressives with a competing ideological term, such as progressives versus centrists or progressives versus conservatives, progressivism is substituted for "idealism," in a pragmatic vs. idealist binary: progressivism is dismissed as nice but |
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