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So According to Some Democrats, the Left are Terrorists?

I am so tired of the gaslighting and abuse.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readNov 22, 2020

As political discourse and demographics have shifted in recent years, the Democratic party has undeniably been forced to grapple with intensifying and increasingly vocal opposition coming from the left. After organizations such as Justice Democrats, Our Revolution, and The Sunrise Movement have continued to grow and mount successful campaigns for candidates like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush, it should come as no surprise that the more corporate wing of the Democratic party has taken issue with the left using their political clout to identify their legitimate grievances with the more conservative Democrats.

Recently however, perhaps one of the most absurd and bombastic shots across the bow coming from corporate Democrats was published in Politico.

Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer write:

“Some in the Biden camp warn that the left wing of the Democratic Party is already spoiling the goodwill they built up during the presidential campaign with the flurry of attacks this week on President-elect Joe Biden’s early White House appointments.

“I think we are at a fork in the road,” said one Democratic operative in close touch with…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by 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

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