Ronald Brownstein
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Brownstein: The real reason moderates keep losing to progressives (opens the original)
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The tumultuous 2026 primary season has made at least one thing clear: Democratic centrists are pursuing a losing strategy in their struggle with the left. Until the moderates change course, they will remain on the defensive. Almost without exception, centrist Democrats in competitive primaries this year have chosen to challenge only the viability, not the desirability, of the left’s core policy ideas. Hardly any centrists have tried to convince Democratic voters that progressive proposals such a
Brownstein: Democrats’ 2028 map reshapes the fight between left and center (opens the original)
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The calendar for the 2028 primaries that Democrats tentatively approved in July flips the racial dynamics of their old presidential nominating process — and maps a path to an epic confrontation between progressives and centrists. From 1972 through 2020, Democrats empowered Iowa and New Hampshire — two small, preponderantly White and heavily rural states — with the power to winnow the presidential field. Last month’s vote by the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (a recomm
Brownstein: The Supreme Court is enabling red states and limiting blue ones (opens the original)
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For years, the Republican-appointed majority at the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed red states to limit rights prized by liberals, including access to abortion, LGBTQ protections and voting rights. Simultaneously, the majority has repeatedly overturned blue-state laws that conservatives say infringe on the rights they prioritize, including religious liberty and gun rights. Call it situational federalism. This two-track approach to states’ rights, which continued this year, is steering the U.S. ba
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