During an interview with C-SPAN on Friday, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that “the extreme left of our Democratic coalition has come to dictate too much policy that is out of touch with the American people on immigration, on criminal justice, on drugs, on homelessness, on radical identity politics.” And sometimes the rest of the party goes along with their ideas.
Smith stated [relevant remarks begin around 9:45] that one reason Democrats lost in 2024 “is because the extreme left of our Democratic coalition has come to dictate too much policy that is out of touch with the American people on immigration, on criminal justice, on drugs, on homelessness, on radical identity politics. These are ideas that are pushed by the far left and they
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