The Democrats v Manchinema and the strategic paradox of the progressive left

Many Democrats have pilloried Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in the press to try to force them left — but they may in fact be hurting themselves electorally

A long piece of mine on, roughly speaking, the future of the Democratic Party is in The Economist’s print edition this week (and online right now). It is chock-full of all the political science/demog…