State Senator James Talarico beat out Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett for the party’s nomination Tuesday by a healthy, though not embarrassing, margin. Under normal circumstances, with normal people, this would just be an election where one candidate won and the other lost. But we are dealing with Democrats here, and they are anything but normal people, and that makes for abnormal circumstances.

Democrats are not a unified group of people; they are an ever-changing coalition of groups of people who have been carefully cultivated through identity politics to be easily motivated to action based on the irrelevant characteristics they share. It’s an army of unthinking drones who don’t really like each other and have competing interests fighting for attention. It was always a house of cards. And while it may not be tumbling down right now, the Senate primary fight in Texas exposed a lot of the cracks in what is the “coalition” that makes up the Democratic Party’s base.

Talarico is a white guy and Crockett is a black woman. While you probably don’t care too much about that, to the “progressive” left, that means everything.

The progressive movement of the beginning of the last century was started by elitists who genuinely believed they were superior to everyone else. It wasn’t based on skin color, at least not completely; it was based on education and what they perceived to be “superior intellect.” Weirdly, it was mostly concentrated in the northeast.

These people would decide who was worthy of what, especially existing and breeding. “Low intellect” people were needed to do the “dirty work” of the time, but breeding at will was not acceptable, as they would soon overwhelm the system. Boom: Planned Parenthood and a push for abortion. Black people were the worst, even though there were plenty of black intellectuals who were a part of the progressive movement, so the abortion clinics had to be put near them, and unwitting sterilizations were implemented, albeit on a limited basis.

World War II and the horrors of fellow progressives in the Nazi regime put a damper on full-scale plans for the entire progressive movement seeking control of everyone, but........

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