538: Liberals Would Be Foolish To Primary Joe Manchin

[LabourJersey]

If Democrats want to kick some moderates out of office, please donate to whoever runs against Cuomo in 2018 and to primary challengers to IDC. That would be really satisfying.

I'm quite opposed to primarying someone like Manchin, partially because there are many moderate Democrats who can lose to true progressives in states where they would have a good chance to win. That's much more effective anyway--a Senate where Carper, Feinstein and Warner are replaced with strong progressives is worth the cost of Manchin-induced political headaches.

[LabourJersey]

Personally I do think that genuine leftist economic policy would play in areas like West Virginia--history points to so many examples of this. However, I think leftists deeply under-estimate how deeply intertwined center-left economic policies are with social liberalism/cosmopolitanism in modern America, and how many people feel deeply opposed to social liberalism at its core.