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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She also says that not everywhere is like Berkeley. I get it, haha. But guess what? The Dem establishment is going hard for Buffy Wicks, the most conservative Dem in a California race to represent...Berkeley. Yes, Berkeley.http://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/04/11/opinion-why-no-tenant-should-vote-for-buffy-wicks-for-assembly …
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Replying to @ryangrim
how do you decide who's part of "the establishment"?
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You know it when you see it. In Wicks’ case, for instance, she has the backing of John Podesta and a bunch of other top folks.
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Have a better way of defining it?
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