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I would actually contest Inviso's proposition that the progressive wing is the minority of the Democratic Party at this point but that hinges heavily on how we're defining progressive. Sure, that's probably true if you had AOC and Manchin both draft up a huge list of how to deal with everything and told everyone to take a side and it was all-or-nothing... but I think it's pretty clear that in the past few years the "progressive wing" has made huge in-roads into the direction of policy demands and direction.

It's hard to tell a lot because you still have the moderates populating leadership largely on seniority, but at the same time we live in a world where Schumer continuously calls for Biden to just cancel student debt and putting aside the fact that he hasn't actually done it yet (which is some BS) the fact that Schumer, the Majority Leader, is publicly onboard student debt cancellation is a massive departure from even 6 years ago.

I think the ideas that were once damn near solely in the realm of Sanders, Warren, and a few House members has rapidly started to guide more and more of the party's overall direction and it's doing so with a good deal of speed all considered.

The problem is that with the margins the way they are it doesn't matter if the progressive wing was 95% of the party, that other 5% can blow it up by themselves and that's what they're doing right now.

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