Even Mayor Pete himself seemed to embrace the talk of a revitalized religious left with real electoral power. Talk of a rising religious left is puzzling in part because there is an already existing religious left — it just lacks the money, numbers and partisan leverage of the religious right. (Indeed, Booker, too, was once hailed as an emblem of the rising religious left.) If the left isn’t becoming more religious and the religious aren’t moving further left, it’s hard to see where the rising tide of a religious left will swell from. Activism and organizing seem much more the natural mode of a religious left than intra-party power playing, and in those small but meaningful ways, the religious left lives on.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2019 21:55 UTC