Despite the advance of cultural wokeness, the Democratic Party’s progressive wing finds itself embattled on two fronts, each with the same opponent: skeptical voters.
In Congress, President Biden’s so-called infrastructure bill, the American Jobs Plan, is struggling to succeed as the warm-up act for progressivism’s star attraction—Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders’s $6 trillion lollapalooza of spending for everything imaginable. Anticipating the worst, voters produced a 50-50 Senate. The American left’s utopia is on hold in Congress.-- More...