Opinion: Why Democrats are weirdly unified these days
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has unified the party. Mostly. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 8 at 4:21 PM When the controversy over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments about U.S. policy toward Israel heated up, many in the news media described it as a bitter conflict within the Democratic Party.
Let’s look at some of what they’ve done. On Friday morning, the House passed H.R. 1, its sweeping political reform bill, and once again, every Democrat voted in favor. Last month, the House passed two gun background-check bills; the mere fact that members are voting on such legislation at all shows that they’ve lost the fear of the NRA that used to grip them. Democrats voted for one measure 225 to 7, and for the other, 232 to 2.
Whenever you have a big win like Democrats did last year, your caucus is likely to grow more moderate, because you picked up seats in swing districts and maybe even a few that lean to the other side. Those seats are likely to be held by candidates closer to the center. Indeed, a number of Democratic moderates have expressed some nervousness about the party being defined by more liberal figures such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez .
Pelosi won't stand for that, and she's simply better at the job than Boehner and Ryan were, finding ways to settle disagreements among her members before they get out of hand and making sure they vote the way she needs them to.
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