Progressives storm Democratic primaries

[Jim Lane]

68. Crowley has already switched on health care.

The linked article notes that Joe Crowley, a machine politician from New York, has long opposed single payer. Now he has his first primary challenger in 15 years, from a candidate who supports single payer. Lo and behold, a month after her announcement, Crowley signed on as a co-sponsor to a Medicare For All bill.

Winning one race won't get us single payer. You're right that winning every race mentioned in the article won't get us single payer. But there's no one election that will do it. It's going to be a long slog, district by district and state by state. We need to persuade Democrats like Crowley to change their minds (or at least their votes), we need to replace intransigent conservaDems with progressives, and we need to oust Republicans.

We won't get single payer without a Democratic majority in the House, but even then we won't get it if too many of the nominal Democrats are voting against it.