Matt Yglesias noted this.
"Good night for The Democratic Establishment."
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/725154969423384577
Indeed it was. Katie McGinty defeated Joe Sestak for Senate in Pennsylvania and Chris Van Hollen defeated Donna Edwards in Maryland. Interestingly, Van Hollen got a third of the black vote.
And why did he get this much? The Party Decides. In this case, the Congressional Black Caucus let it be known, that while Ms. Edwards would be the first black, female, Senator, they were not with her.
Which is fine. Diversity is crucially important but this doesn't mean that in every race this will be the decisive factor.
Of course, where the party really shows its health is at the Presidential level as Hillary is now the presumed nominee of the Democratic party.
This is a very good thing. To accomplish what we liberals want to accomplish, we need a strong, healthy Democratic party.
Yglesias has at times seemed to suggest that the Democrats should follow Bernie and become a more purist, leftist, ideological party-sort of like the GOP is on the right.
I think this would be a serious mistake. President Obama has warned about the Dems becoming a liberal version of the Tea Party.
What made last night so great for the Dems is not just what they prevented but what the GOP was unable to prevent.
Scott Sumner is right when he said recently that he's never seen a party this humiliated. While 1968 was a bad year for the Dems, what has happened to the GOP with Trump is worse.
With the huge wins of Donald Trump last night-remember when he couldn't get about 50 percent?-the GOP is truly at the Eve of Destruction.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-north-patterson/the-gops-eve-of-destructi_b_9701880.html
The fact that Bernie Sanders was turned back and Trump has overrun the GOP tells us everything we need to know about the two parties.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/725154969423384577
Indeed it was. Katie McGinty defeated Joe Sestak for Senate in Pennsylvania and Chris Van Hollen defeated Donna Edwards in Maryland. Interestingly, Van Hollen got a third of the black vote.
And why did he get this much? The Party Decides. In this case, the Congressional Black Caucus let it be known, that while Ms. Edwards would be the first black, female, Senator, they were not with her.
Which is fine. Diversity is crucially important but this doesn't mean that in every race this will be the decisive factor.
Of course, where the party really shows its health is at the Presidential level as Hillary is now the presumed nominee of the Democratic party.
This is a very good thing. To accomplish what we liberals want to accomplish, we need a strong, healthy Democratic party.
Yglesias has at times seemed to suggest that the Democrats should follow Bernie and become a more purist, leftist, ideological party-sort of like the GOP is on the right.
I think this would be a serious mistake. President Obama has warned about the Dems becoming a liberal version of the Tea Party.
What made last night so great for the Dems is not just what they prevented but what the GOP was unable to prevent.
Scott Sumner is right when he said recently that he's never seen a party this humiliated. While 1968 was a bad year for the Dems, what has happened to the GOP with Trump is worse.
With the huge wins of Donald Trump last night-remember when he couldn't get about 50 percent?-the GOP is truly at the Eve of Destruction.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-north-patterson/the-gops-eve-of-destructi_b_9701880.html
The fact that Bernie Sanders was turned back and Trump has overrun the GOP tells us everything we need to know about the two parties.
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