Opinion: How worrisome are the divisions among Democrats?
Sen. Bernie Sanders greets the crowd at a Fox News town hall-style event Monday in Bethlehem, Pa. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 17 at 12:57 PM “Unity” is something both parties want to achieve: Everyone focused on the same goal and delivering the same message as they put aside their differences in service to a larger cause. But it can be elusive.
The person at the center of the unity question is Sen. Bernie Sanders , but first, let’s take a quick tour around the landscape. On Tuesday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand became the first presidential candidate to wade into a primary campaign when she endorsed a challenger to Rep. Daniel Lipinski . No Democratic congressman is more reviled by liberals than Lipinski: He opposes abortion rights and marriage equality, and voted against the Affordable Care Act.
She’s right that many moderate Democrats won last year, because that’s what happens when you have a wave election. You pick up seats in close districts, and the candidates who win in them will usually be more moderate. So two things happened simultaneously: House Democrats gained a group of moderate members, and also a group of extremely progressive members.
But now Sanders finds himself in what could be an awkward position. He built his political persona on being an outsider, an insurgent, the one who argues that Democrats are not going far enough or being progressive enough. That’s who he was at the start of his political career four decades ago, that’s who he has always been and that’s who he will always be.
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