In times like these, when an issue has pushed American political life to a white heat, a sage often steps forward to reiterate a truth: All politics is local. Not anymore. Not when Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren demands that President Biden set up abortion clinics on federal soil in response to a “national health crisis” (an idea Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sadly called “the baby steps baby”).
For the progressives who run the Democratic Party, all politics is national. Whether it’s abortion on demand, gun bans, eliminating fossil fuels, whatever, the Democrats’ view is that the locals (rhymes with yokels) are just along for the ride. Get over it. And if progressives don’t get what they want, they take to the streets.