At times like these, when an issue has gotten American political life into high gear, a wise man often steps forward to reiterate a truism: all politics is local. No longer. Not when Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, is demanding that President Biden establish abortion clinics in states in response to a “national health emergency” (an idea that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sadly called “the very smallest step”).
For the progressives who lead the Democratic Party, all politics is national. Whether it’s abortion-on-demand, gun bans, phasing out fossil fuels, you name it, the Democrats think the locals (rhymes with chumps) are just riding along. Get over it. And when progressives don’t get what they want, they take to the streets.
