Some Democrats, regardless of age or where they fall on the center-to-left spectrum, have stepped up to address the stakes of Trump’s current assault on the federal bureaucracy and the rule of law. Other leaders, such as Senator Chris Van Hollen and several other elected officials, have traveled to El Salvador to bring attention to the plight of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant at the center of the Trump administration’s standoff with the Supreme Court. Although splitting off from more radical members of the party might seem to make sense to certain big-tent Democrats, it would ignore the fact that those drawing tens of thousands of people into the tent right now—namely, Sanders and AOC—are unapologetic progressives.
Author: John Hendrickson
Published at: 2025-04-22 22:46:31
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