Republican politicians fear their base, while Democratic politicians don’t. That’s why we are in this mess
put it, that’s a sign that “anger at do-nothing Dems really has gone completely mainstream in a way that seemed impossible three or four years ago”.
That’s how democracy is supposed to work: we’re supposed to evaluate representatives not on their personalities or party affiliations, but on their records, and when they fail to deliver on their promises, those representatives are supposed to fear being denied their party’s nomination and thrown out of office by their own voters.Ta-Nehisi Coates back in 2011. “This is not the flaw of democracy, it’s the entire point.
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