Hugo Gurdon: ‘The Democrats Are Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ Ahead of the 2022 Midterms

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GURDON: "The real problem that the Democrat leaders have is that they are dependent on the sort of AOC/Bernie Sanders wing of the party, the Progressives, for votes. There is more than 90 members of the House Democratic Caucus who are in the Progressive Caucus. That means they can’t cross those people nearly as much. Now, it's not that they actually disagree, but they know that that caucus of progressives or leftists or whatever you want to call them, socialists, are out of tune with the rest of the country. The rest of the country doesn’t like what those people are pushing. But the Democratic leadership can’t get those people angry or otherwise they lose their votes. It's only because of those people that they hold onto power. So the Democrats are between a rock and a hard place. Yes, compromise would be great, but these radicals think that compromise is just weakness and it's anathema to it. They don’t want to compromise. They want to push ahead even though the country doesn’t want what they want."