Three weeks into President Trump’s term, the Democratic Party and progressive establishment have almost entirely adopted the demands of a restive, active and aggressive base. Democrats, taking cues from their base, have given Trump’s key Cabinet nominees the smallest level of support from an opposition party in history. Progressive groups protested the very presence of Third Way at the House Democratic retreat in Baltimore. Yet in 2010, 48 House Democrats represented districts whose voters had picked McCain for president over Barack Obama. “President Trump is a better recruitment tool for us than he is the central campaign issue.

Source: Washington Post February 11, 2017 22:55 UTC