'Establishment' Democrats as Agents of Change [View all]

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by Nancy LeTourneau
April 10, 2019

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These days, while much of the media is obsessed with the more vocal members recently elected to Congress, we are watching a few “establishment” Democrats step into the spotlight to hold Donald Trump accountable. I was recently struck by this tweet:

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To be clear, that picture includes:
Elijah Cummings, chair of the House Oversight Committee
Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee
Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee
Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee
Richard Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee

That line-up is already taking heat and dishing it out in ways we’d almost forgotten could happen during the last eight years of a House Republican majority. Of course, leading that charge is Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has reminded all of us that she not only knows what she’s doing, but is a force to be reckoned with.



John Kerry is the politician who taught me that dismissing
Democrats under the guise that they are “establishment” was a serious mistake. Just imagine where we’d be on the issue of climate change if he had been elected president in 2004. We now have a host of leaders in Congress that are putting an exclamation point on that lesson. It is way past time to discard our mistaken notions about the distinction between “establishment” and “insurgent.”

Read More: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/04/10/establishment-democrats-as-agents-of-change/