The war they fight won’t be at the ballot box. It will be well before the voters are ever given a choice. They will use their monopoly on the election process to ensure that the status quo establishment dems are the only ones that are allowed to run. They will work with the donor’s to ensure that even if a primary occurs there are no funds available for the challengers. Finally if these upstarts are actually able to get to a general election, they will talk about the need for bipartisanship and push the virtues of cutting spending while fomenting distrust in society.
The war they fight won’t be at the ballot box. It will be well before the voters are ever given a choice. They will use their monopoly on the election process to ensure that the status quo establishment dems are the only ones that are allowed to run. They will work with the donor’s to ensure that even if a primary occurs there are no funds available for the challengers. Finally if these upstarts are actually able to get to a general election, they will talk about the need for bipartisanship and push the virtues of cutting spending while fomenting distrust in society.
They’ll try all these things, but who knows if they’ll be successful. They’re less powerful than they used to be.