Sam Seder
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Centrist Democrats Running Out Of Excuses
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August 12, 2018
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42:11Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, Sam Seder talks to Dave Weigel about how the Democrats are running out of excuses.
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"It has been a good summer for the Democratic Socialists of America.
On June 20, members of the organization’s Metro D.C. chapter confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant downtown, chasing her out and making national news.
Six days later, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrestled the Democratic House nomination away from Rep. Joseph Crowley (N.Y.), becoming an instant political star who now crisscrosses the country to boost other candidates and talk up “democratic socialism” on late-night TV.
Three days after her win, the Los Angeles City Council approved a ballot measure that would create a public bank, to replace Wall Street banks and payday loan centers with something accountable to voters — a cause that the city’s two growing DSA chapters had helped to pull from obscurity.
DSA, founded in 1982 and nearly moribund before 2016, has never had more adherents or more clout. It’s not a political party, although members are often asked if it is. It’s not directing the Democratic Party’s agenda, but rather is the most visible and organized force in politics for an ideology that both major parties have previously viewed with hostility.
Republicans have jumped on the socialist victories to impugn all Democrats. Democrats in the party’s centrist wing have likewise been rattled, worried that the democratic socialists’ prominence will define every party candidate as far left in competitive districts that are not."
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