"Crowley was a down-the-line liberal" -- what kind of nonsense is this? No he wasn't. He worked for Citigroup. Nice smart guy, but in favor of corporate concentration.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ocasio-cortez-just-did-democrats-a-big-favor/2018/06/27/dafdc498-7a4c-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html?utm_term=.a19f06a7526f …
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Replying to @matthewstoller
@Milbank has boxed himself into the position that all Democrats agree on almost everything, so that's why he's contorting himself. His notion that hitting Crowley for taking "special interest money" is "non-ideological" is absurd on its face. That's an ideological argument!pic.twitter.com/50epqckCNx
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Did the demographics of the district change from Monday to Tuesday? People all of a sudden got browner and Crowley got whiter? If it was so obvious, why is this running after the election and not before?
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Replying to @ryangrim @matthewstoller
3. In 85 percent of Dem House primaries this year, the candidate who raised the most money won. Of the exceptions, 70% are women. This is the year of the woman, not the anti-Democratic-establishment candidate.
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It doesn’t have to be one or the other.
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I do agree with you that there’s a progressive uprising. I just don’t see the pushback that you see.
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I don’t think I follow. So you’d say that the DCCC and, say, Our Rev or Justice Democrats are actually in political alignment?
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Replying to @ryangrim @matthewstoller
No, though I would say the whole party has moved to the left and the differences among the three are dwarfed by voters’ overriding concern this year, which is stopping Trump. If/when Dems regain power, those differences will emerge again.
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Well if the differences are soon to re-emerge, then it's hugely important which folks from which elements of the party get elected now, right? Because they'll emerge later on one side or the other
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Replying to @ryangrim @matthewstoller
What’s hugely important is stopping Trump.
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That's another either/or that doesn't have to be one. People can do two things at once. In fact, while AOC was running to take out Crowley, she traveled to Texas to protest Trump's kidnappings. Then she came back and took out Crowley.
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I appreciated Dana's point that there's a generational and demographic shift within an absurdly structured party. I'm also a bit skeptical of the ideological coherence of the newfound left. But there are real bitter tension in the Democratic party over corporate power.
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We saw this with the Tom Perez vs Keith Ellison spat, and it is latent all over the place. It's Wilson's New Freedom vs Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism.
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