How to Hold a Big Tent Together

First, never uncritically accept a right-wing talking point.

There are two threads I want to stitch together.

One comes from EJ Dionne, the Washington Post columnist. He wrote on Sunday that all the major policy debates happening right now are not between the two parties but within one, the Democratic Party. The challenge, Dionne wrote, is making progress while bringing along new “liberal Republicans” alienated b…