Surrender-happy centrist Democrats continue to believe the country can’t run without their wisdom, so let’s look at a prime example of how wrong they are: Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, the +8 R district that Jon Ossoff almost won in a much-watched 2017 special election. The winner of that election, Karen Handel, lost on Nov. 6 to Lucy McBath, who came from far back to win a three-way primary (this story from May gives you a good idea of how little chance she was given), then ignored conventional wisdom and ran an unapologetically progressive campaign.
Here’s another positive sign centrism is on the ropes: the Five White Guys campaign to Dump Pelosi looks to be um, petering out. Even better, it’s a sign that the power in the party is shifting to Pelosi’s left, not her right.
Rumors of the GOP’s death are not being exaggerated. In New York, the party crashed and burned at the state level, to the point where one insider said, “Someday the Republican Party might come back. But, of course, someday we’ll also have flying cars and personal jet packs.”
Well, maybe not. We might not be around that long. The White House tried its best to bury it, but the National Climate Assessment released on Black Friday provides all the evidence anyone should need that climate change is not a future challenge but a present one.