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Title : "The Democrats’ Only Hope: Give Up Leftism for Lambism."
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"The Democrats’ Only Hope: Give Up Leftism for Lambism."

That's The Daily Beast headline for this piece by Ronald Radosh. The subheadline is: "Conor Lamb was plenty liberal—Obamacare, union support, more. But he didn’t check every box or play the identity politics game."

I'm torn between saying Is Lambism even anything? and I've been encouraging Lambism.

My claim to Lambism is based on 2 posts I wrote after Lamb won the special election in 18th Congressional District. First:

I love the Conor Lamb effect. I am cheering it on. Conservative Democrats! Break up the old clods of power and give us something crumbly and fresh!

And second:

Lamb's presence in the House is disruptive, and hence more Trumpian than [his GOP opponent] Saccone. As Trump himself put it, Saccone would be a reliable vote for Republicans. Just another Republican. But Lamb is a force for change within the Democratic Party. I'd like to see the Democrats challenged from within like that.

Radosh begins his argument by reminding/telling us about Henry "Scoop" Jackson, who couldn't get the Democratic Party nomination in 1972, when the party just had to have George McGovern who was crushed in the general election by Richard Nixon. Maybe Lamb is like Jackson.

The idea that some Democrat is a Scoop Jackson Democrat is something that I believe I've heard continually since 1972. He's the moderate Democrat that will fail within the party's processes, but if only he could get through to the general election, he'd win... and those dumb Democrats, leaning left, keep forcing "Democrats" to vote Republican.

If Radosh is doing anything more than restating this ancient insight, I'm not seeing it.

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