"Turns out a majority of his caucus has cosponsored the flagship free-healthcare-for-every-body legislation … along with 40% of Senate Dems."
Accordingly, this digital ink-stained wretch has always been grateful for the acronymic alternative for “Republican Party” – “GOP.” And equally frustrated that a counterpart did not exist for its opposite number.
"Until now.
""The Democrats’ leftward drift – actually, now a full-out sprint – has provided a neat and increasingly useful abbreviation.
"DSA.
"But wait, you protest. Isn’t that the name of a separate, radical party that has infiltrated the ranks of Democratic candidates for various offices ranging from city councils to the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body?
"As if. “DSA” has been interchangeable for “Democratic Party” in reality, if not in name, for years now.
"Doubt that for a micro-millisecond? Accompany your correspondent on a tour through time to the madcap 2020 presidential primary cycle.
"In a singularly prescient warning – headlined “Don’t Buy the Myth of the ‘Moderate’ Democrat” – this scribe demonstrated that “even the most ‘moderate’ contender” on a 2019 debate stage was “far to the left of” George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. And “selling an agenda more radical than any political platform in our history.”
"Alleged middle-of-the-roaders variously favored “a universal healthcare system to give everyone basic healthcare for free,” dramatically expanding Medicare, or the then-popular “public option” for insurance, which one contender artfully acknowledged would lead to.
“Medicare for All without us having to kick anybody off their insurance.”
"On immigration, the most rightward candidates “agreed with the radicals on the essentials of ‘comprehensive immigration reform’: opening the door wide to Dreamers, expanding legal immigration, and of course, the proverbial ‘pathway to citizenship’ for illegals.” . . .
Hard left Democrat stutters with shock live on CNN as anchor grills him over love for Fidel Castro . . . "'Fidel Castro locked my grandfather up, sentenced to 20 years for doing what you're doing now on live TV, for speaking his mind, for expressing himself freely, for trying to organize politically.
"Sanchez said he wanted Siddique to think about 'how you think that lands with people who suffered under that dictatorship who now you were trying to court as voters when your organization comes out and lauds 100 years of Castro.'
"Siddique clearly appeared flustered and stammered through his response, which pivoted to the DSA's critiques of income inequality in the US. " . . .
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