If They Act Like a Republican, What’s the Point of a Democrat?

No matter how many times they lose, Democrats still run right.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readNov 10, 2020
Claire McCaskill, via Jeff Roberson, AP File

In the months leading up to the election, no one worked harder to oust President Trump than progressive leaders like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. There’s in fact an argument to be made that they actually worked harder than Joe Biden himself, and salvaged which was — other than the defeat of Donald Trump — a pretty terrible night for the Democratic party. But of course, the response to the left’s drive, and the tireless efforts to get out the vote on behalf of Joe Biden were met with exactly the type of response one would expect from corporate Democratic politicians and pundits.

As one might have predicted, it didn’t take long for people like former Senator Claire McCaskill to begin punching left in an effort to turn the party even further to the right.

When addressing where she thought the Democratic party went wrong, McCaskill stated:

“It’s hard to pinpoint, I think it began around cultural issues. The Republican party very adopted cultural issues as part of their main theme, whether you’re talking guns, or issues surrounding the right to abortion in this country, or things like gay marriage and the right for…

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx