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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whether I agree or disagree is beside the point. to me, "establishment" is an empty signifier, you seem to think it's a useful term for political analysis. therefore, you should be able to give me an intensional definition.
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a candidate who is backed by a significant swath of national leadership in the party, or their local proxies. Don’t make this more complicated than it is
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