The Democratic Party is lost. For eight long years, they made Donald Trump the bane of all existence, and despite the best efforts of the party, news media, intelligence services, Hollywood, and the activists, he’s back — and more powerful than ever. Worse, they don’t know the way out, but in all their infighting, three proposals are taking shape among the factions: The progressives, the pragmatists, and the possums.
The progressives are the most obvious. Like vegans and atheists, their politics are the first thing they’ll tell you about. These Democrats counsel no retreat from the politics that got them so lost in the first place. “Democrats have been playing dead for too many years,” progressive icon Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed last weekend.
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