From WSJopinion: By ceding moral authority to the far left, the Democrats have lost the power to counter bizarre proposals with simple common sense, writes Joseph Epstein
Potomac Watch: The split between progressives and moderates could sink the party in November. Image: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesGeorge Orwell noted the nervousness of people on the left when confronted by those even further to the left.
This nervousness stems from leftists’ fear that they will be taken for impure in their own leftism, that their thought and actions don’t go far enough, that they are, finally, not really on the bus. In America during the 1930s, Communists mocked liberals for their weakness, and liberals worried about not measuring up. Hence the phenomenon of the “fellow traveler,” someone who sympathized with the Communist Party but couldn’t bring himself to join it.
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