Episode 103: The Glib Left-Punching of “Purity Politics” Discourse

<div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="998r1" data-offset-key="2hsma-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2hsma-0-0"><span data-offset-key= "2hsma-0-0">"Obama Warns Against ‘Purity Tests’ In Democratic Primary,"</span> <span data-offset-key="2hsma-0-1">Spectrum News</span> <span data-offset-key="2hsma-0-2">reports. "Spare Me the Purity Racket," Maureen Dowd opines in</span> <span data-offset-key="2hsma-0-3">The New York Times</span><span data-offset-key="2hsma-0-4">. "'Purity Tests' Divide Democrats,"</span> <span data-offset-key="2hsma-0-5">US News & World Report</span> <span data-offset-key= "2hsma-0-6">announces. "Political purity tests are for losers," bellows</span> <span data-offset-key="2hsma-0-7">The Hill</span><span data-offset-key="2hsma-0-8">.</span></div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2hsma-0-0"> </div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="998r1" data-offset-key="79p90-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="79p90-0-0"><span data-offset-key="79p90-0-0">We hear it all the time: progressives, leftists, radicals — and even liberals — are told they must not engage in the siren song of "purity politics."</span> <span data-offset-key="79p90-0-1">Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good</span><span data-offset-key="79p90-0-2">, we are told. We must be pragmatic, realistic, we must lay down our ideological arms and stop pining for Nirvana when so much is on the line in November. </span></div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="79p90-0-0"> </div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="998r1" data-offset-key="dfodv-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDe