23-06-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Democrats Warning Against Progressive Policies
It's not 2020 anymore, and thank goodness some Democrats are trying to walk their party back from wokery and toward the political center. In March this column wondered how the weekend opinion editors at the New York Times had gotten away with publishing a reasonable analysis of progressive failings. Now some sage advice has also made it into a weekday edition. Meanwhile on the West Coast, a progressive leftist is continuing her fascinating journey toward rationality.
Think back to the radical political and media environment of the summer of 2020 and imagine reading the following news report about the left-wing Democratic governor of a deep-blue state. Here in June of 2025, Austin De Dios reports for The Oregonian:
