From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:

The Left Begins to Realize Their Guys Haven’t Delivered
Zephyr Teachout, who challenged Andrew Cuomo in the New York State Democratic primary, contends that the Democratic party “needs a kick from the left.”
The dissatisfaction of liberals ought to be useful antidote to glum conservatives convinced that America has sold its collective soul to collectivist statism. But it’s worth noting what Teachout finds most objectionable about Cuomo:
Our challenge came at an important moment for the Democratic Party. While we believe our party is on the right side when it comes to the issues the nation is facing, it is not wholly immune to the cronyism and corruption that has contaminated the Republican Party. Some of the problems we identified with the Cuomo administration — prioritization of donor needs and support for Republican candidates and Republican causes, for instance — can be found around the country. We are at the beginning of a serious debate about what the Democratic Party really stands for, and we would like to think we have helped to start that discussion.
Notice the casual conflation of “cronyism and corruption” with “support for Republican candidates and Republican causes.”
Is “too much support for Republican candidates” the problem that should the Left? Or merely the aspect of modern Democratic governance that bothers them the most? New York is beginning universal pre-K, even though a lot of schools still stink. The unemployment rate has slid down as Americans leave the workforce, but few would claim this is a booming era of hiring and opportunity. Obamacare has reduced the number of uninsured nationally to a mere . . . 41 million. Premiums are set to go up about 8 percent next year. Dodd-Frank completely failed to end the era of “Too Big to Fail.” There was massive fraud in the stimulus program, costing taxpayers “billions”, but the Left would much rather talk about the Koch brothers. Our foreign policy is a dumpster fire right now.
The bigger problem for the Left is that their preferred president and their preferred governors and legislators, enacting their preferred policies, have not generated their preferred results.
Teachout took about a third of the vote in a New York Democratic primary that had low turnout.
Above: Governor Cuomo reacted to his primary victory by cackling, “BWAHAHAHA! NO ONE CAN STOP ME NOW!”