I almost laughed out loud at Megan McArdle’s most recent Washington Post column. I don’t think she intended it as humor. Here’s its kernel:
Pelosi’s caucus is near open rebellion, most recently last week over funding the Senate’s emergency border aid package. Hard-liners in the party had wanted her to amend it, but Pelosi ultimately capitulated to pressure from her centrist wing, whose districts won’t countenance using the misery of migrant children as a negotiating tactic. Since those districts are vital to maintaining the Democratic majority, Pelosi allowed the bill to come to the floor, giving moderate Democrats an opening to join Republicans in passing it. House progressives went berserk.
It was a stunning — and increasingly common — display of party disunity.
The Democratic Party has been in disarray for living memory. Back in the 1920s when asked if he were a member of an organized political party humorist Will Rogers’s response was “No, I’m a Democrat”. Somehow they always seem to do just fine.
I’m more worried about the party unifying behind Bernie Sanders’s platform and adopting a gaggle of unworkable or harmful policies than I am disunity.
Why mention Bernie Sanders as having “unworkable†policies? IMO, the entire fleet of democrat candidates have far left, unworkable policies!