The party’s progressives are diminished, but its moderates aren’t grabbing the wheel either.
This line doesn’t actually appear in the article, so I couldn’t find what sort of braindead analysis decided an election where a moderate candidate lost on 100% pure grade bipartisan moderation meant that progressives were diminished.
Yet unlike the progressive ascendance of eight years ago, it’s not clear who is leading the charge.
This is one of their two mentions of “progressive”, which itself is baffling. There was a progressive ascendance eight years ago?
Progressives like Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren became national figures and top-tier presidential candidates while opposing Trump’s policies and nominees,
Ohhh, did the author think these people only became national figures by opposing Trump? Like… What? If that’s the case, Warren’s still out there spitting fire. It didn’t make the moderates then accept her as an ideological leader 8 years ago though, so why would you expect it now.
This line doesn’t actually appear in the article, so I couldn’t find what sort of braindead analysis decided an election where a moderate candidate lost on 100% pure grade bipartisan moderation meant that progressives were diminished.
This is one of their two mentions of “progressive”, which itself is baffling. There was a progressive ascendance eight years ago?
Ohhh, did the author think these people only became national figures by opposing Trump? Like… What? If that’s the case, Warren’s still out there spitting fire. It didn’t make the moderates then accept her as an ideological leader 8 years ago though, so why would you expect it now.
Diminished meaning “the centrists pushed them out and now plan to roll over for fascism”