Waging War on the Left Within the Democratic Party Won’t Work

Pundits close to the Democratic establishment have a new term to fling at the left-wing insurgents they want to disappear: “factionalism.” Matthew Yglesias now and their on the basis that they believe in “factionalism and ,” or have “a whole factional ,” “factional ,” a “ for factionalism.” , he took up this line over the Graham Platner candidacy, but now Yglesias uses it to refer to any attempt by the Left to replace establishment-friendly incumbents by beating them in primary…