Progressive primary victories have corporate Democrats panicking | Norman Solomon

The success of democratic socialists has led to an establishment backlash, fueling divisions over how to respond A recent chair of the Democratic National Committee apparently wants democratic socialists to get out of his party. “If you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination,” Jaime Harrison tweeted on election day last week, shortly before results showed that three of those socialists had won Democratic primaries for Congress in deep-blue New York City. He didn’t...

By Norman Solomon