The narrative being spun this week—that the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was cheated out of a sweeping victory—is not only inaccurate; it is dangerously sentimental.
The most profound victories for American democracy are rarely achieved in the grand halls of power; they are won in the messy, exhausting arithmetic of primaries.
The primary rematch between Cori Bush and Wesley Bell is not merely a local Missouri contest; it is a microcosm of the American Democratic Party’s enduring inability to reconcile…
You can read about the basis charts and commodity futures all day long, but none of it prepares you for the cost of a rule written by people who have never met a payroll or seen a drought.