A recent Pew Research Center survey of Democratic voters found that only 12 percent self-identify as “progressives” and hold extremely liberal views on race, immigration, and redistributing income. They are unrepresentative of the party as a whole — nearly 70 percent of these progressives are white and 60 percent embrace socialism — but they dominate Democratic policy outcomes.
Just last week, the “Squad” of progressive House members that’s clustered around Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delayed for a second time a public-safety bill that would fund grants so local police departments could hire more officers.
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