Democrats’ Best Midterms Strategy: Stop Fighting Each Other

You don’t need to be a political scientist or even a Democrat to know that the Democratic Party has some factional divisions. They are different in nature from the factional divisions among Republicans, which used to be over ideological orientations and policy arguments, but are now over relative degrees of loyalty to the chaotic views and corrupt interests of Donald Trump .

While it’s possible to slice and dice Democrats into multiple tribes, they mostly fall into the rough categories of progressives and centrists (or moderates, or “pragmatic progressives,” or whatever they choose to call themselves). These groups often differ, sometimes vociferously, over economic policy, cultural perspectives, America’s role in the world, and effective political strategies. Tensions between them have