Originally posted on wibc.com
I made a mistake: Pelosi and Cortez are not battling for the soul of the Democratic party.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are both Progressives; hard-edged and hard core. Their socialist dream is shared between themselves, as it is with millions of activists.
More government. More control. More so-called equality. Less people being able to say out loud that the world envisioned by them is awful.
I realized my mistake when I said it on FOX News. In a conversation with Leland Vittert, referencing a column in the New York Times from Maureen Dowd, I said that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Speaker Pelosi were locked in a battle for the soul of the party. I should have said that it was a battle for control of the party.
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