Democratic Primaries

And it is worth pointing out it is moderate figures, and center of the road types, that we owe for our 2018 victory. People on the further left of the political spectrum tend to take a glass half full view of such things, and ignore that a moderate elected in a 'red' district represents a shift to the left by the voters of that district. That ought to be hailed as such a shift, rather than decried as a dilution, or even an infiltration, of our Party. Where I part company with some of my more moderate comrades is in seeing nothing at all wrong in primary challenges that offer a possibility of moving our membership in Congress further to the left. The districts for such a challenge ought to be chosen carefully, they ought to be districts which really are Party strongholds, where a figure more to the left than a present incumbent will have a real chance of success in a general election. Such challenges ought not to be made willy-nilly, and ought never to be made in a district newly won to us by a moderate adherent to our Party.





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."