If one listens to Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie
Sanders, hearing would seem to be believing… “medicare for all”, slave
reparation, “free this and that,” etc., are their positions.
In fact, Iowa results showed that these two, plus left
wing-pandering ex-mayor Pete Buttigieg, garnered backing from more than half of
the state’s Democrats.
Yet moderate forces among Democrats are still sizeable with
results for Joe Biden and Minnesota
Senator Amy Klobuchar of about 30%.
[Applying the label “moderate” to these two contenders
can be misleading in assessing their political identities. Given the undeniable leftward shift of the
Democratic Party which has occurred over
the past two decades, their current policy prescriptions would have been
labeled “left wing” in the year 2000.]
For Democrats wise enough to understand that November
victory prospects will be greatly diminished by fielding the likes of Sanders
or Warren, the hope is that Iowa is not a harbinger of the future. But maybe the current perception of the
Democratic Party is indeed the reality.
That prospect, understandably, makes Republicans gleeful.
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