Working Families Party

Many New York Democrats Plan To Hold Their Noses When They Vote For Cuomo In November-- Or Will They?

On Sunday, Steve Kornacki took a little look at the expanding rift between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic base. It's worth looking at the video above. Salon's Joan Walsh did a particularly excellent job straightening out Beltway political entrepreneur Ann Lewis, who actually defended Cuomo by quoting Ronald Reagan. I'm not going to get into speculating about what the Working Families Party may or may not do, beyond saying that with the union leadership telling them they;re on their own, they probably won't do much.

Is There Such A Thing As a Sustainable Progressive Movement? The Working Families Party Thinks So

Its all a matter of relativity-- and how you define "progressive"When I was growing up in New York, a sometimes viable alternative to the corrupt Democratic Party Machine was the Liberal Party, which was supposed to be more liberal than the Democrats and less socialist and "Commie" than the American Labor Party-- the original home for leftists who wanted to support FDR and the New Deal without stooping to voting for the Democrats.