Primaries offer opportunities. General elections bring imperatives -- to defeat right-wing forces -- and that's certainly true this time around.
The last two years of undue efforts to accommodate Republican leaders have ended up boosting -- not countering -- their momentum. My recent article Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine makes a case that giving ground to the right wing is a formula for disaster.
Now, many progressives are working feverishly to limit the looming disaster. That means pulling together.
With his recent essay The "Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson" Myth, journalist Robert Parry assesses the consequences of failure to unite against Republicans when the November chips are down.
Progressives, unite!
