As Democrats try to unite around their new “Better Deal” agenda, the supposed battle between the “socialist” left and the “corporatist” center seems to have collapsed into a bland but serviceable slogan, with a reasonably progressive economic agenda that both Senators Elizabeth Warren and Charles Schumer can get behind. So much for that overhyped party civil war.
But Democrats shouldn’t be trumpeting party unity quite yet. The economic-left-versus-center debate has always been primarily an elite one....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/opinion/democrats-divided-new-plan.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20170726&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=4&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1
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