There are people who argue that the Democratic Party’s steady leftward progression during the Trump years is largely an optical illusion. Ten Dems making their case to be president on a debate stage Wednesday night suggest a much different conclusion
There are people who argue that the Democratic Party’s steady leftward progression during the Trump years is largely an optical illusion—a distorted impression one gets from assigning too much significance to social media noise or flamboyant figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
An early defining moment came when anchor Lester Holt asked for a show of hands of “who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?” Warren was one of two who clearly raised her hand. What was notable on Wednesday night was that even the candidates who are plainly more cautious than Warren about expanding government’s role---Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, for example—struck rhetorical tones designed to convey that they are every bit as ambitious and ready to fight as she is.
“I don’t think I disagree,” he responded, underscoring the point by inveighing against Amazon, Halliburton, and “monopolistic” drug companies, many of which are headquartered in his state. As much as specific policy proposals, it was the language that suggested changing winds within the party. De Blasio vowed he would stand up to Trump’s argument that illegal immigrants are damaging America with a different argument to working class voters: “For all the American citizens out there who feel you're falling behind or feel the American dream is not working for you, the immigrants didn't do that to you. The big corporations did that to you. The one percent did that to you.
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