The moderate-liberal faction of the Democratic Party just keeps getting bad news. Democratic leadership, in the persons of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), is temperamentally moderate, culturally progressive, and lukewarm at best on economic populism — which means they aren’t exactly loved by the left. And it turns out, that unique combination of beliefs is fairly unpopular with the Democratic Party’s base.

Don’t take my word for it: Even as mainstream a liberal as MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has noticed that socialist-friendly left progressives are routing the more moderate voices in the party — people like Senator Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and of course, Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist sensation who easily defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for New York City mayor. Scarborough stated the problem for moderates quite plainly

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