And this from Heritage Review: . . . "That is a position Democratic leaders can accept or reject. But they cannot ignore it. Reid may no longer have a cable show, but she has a podcast, a speaking circuit, and an audience that treats her pronouncements as marching orders.
"The increasingly extreme positions staking out the Democratic Party's left flank create a familiar problem: every concession to the base makes the general election harder. Every refusal to concede risks a primary challenge or a stay-home protest vote.
"Reid has chosen her side. The rest of the Democratic Party now gets to decide whether her litmus test is a fringe demand or a preview of where the whole coalition is headed.
"When a party's loudest voices start issuing ultimatums that most of its own elected officials cannot meet, that is not a sign of strength. It is a sign that the people who claim to speak for the base have lost interest in actually winning." . . .
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