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Florida, that perpetual source of meme-worthy headlines and deep political disappointment for Democrats, held primary elections for both parties last night. The results were, frankly, a bit confusing. Democrats rejected an establishment-backed Senate contender in favor of a progressive—and simultaneously picked a former Republican to be their champion in the governor’s race. Republicans, meanwhile, voted down a string of ultra-extreme candidates in favor of candidates who are merely extreme. Let’s make sense of a head-spinning night.

We’ve heard a lot about Democrats’ tug-of-war between the party’s centrist and progressive wings. Did either one win yesterday?

Yes—they both did. Progressives scored their most impressive win of the night in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Angie Nixon, a state representative who joined the Democratic Socialists of America this year, beat Alex Vindman, an Army veteran who testified during Donald Trump’s first impeachment hearing. Despite a 16-to-1 fundraising advantage and support from prominent senators, Vindman lost by 12 points. Nixon, a union organizer who supports Medicare for All, will face Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, who was appointed to the seat last year, in November.

That sounds like a pretty big coup for the left!

It was. But as with earlier Democratic primaries, Nixon’s win wasn’t a knockout blow in the party’s insider–outsider civil war. For one thing, Vindman moved to Florida just three years ago. For another, establishment candidates elsewhere in Florida easily fended off lefty rivals last night. Democrats’ nominee for governor, David Jolly, is so moderate that he wasn’t even a Democrat until last year. (He left the GOP in 2018, after criticizing Trump.) Meanwhile, Reps. Jared Moskowitz, a pro-Israel Democrat, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, both beat democratic socialists in U.S. House primaries. So, as we........

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