Elaine Kamarck here asserts as fact that party leaders are more concerned with electability while party activists care about ideology. That’s backwards. In my experience, activists heavily weigh electability and party leaders are highly ideologicalhttps://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/dccc-democratic-primaries-interference.html …
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Yeah, why worry about electability at all if you don't have plans for how you use the position once you hold it? Of course ideology matters. But it doesn't matter much if you can't also get elected. Both are necessary.
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Party leaders derive benefits from their participation in politics whether they win or lose. Activists only do so when they win. So activists have more incentive to care about winning.
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