This Democratic leader just went off on the 'woke' left [View all]

[brooklynite]

CNN

Hakeem Jeffries is sick of hearing from liberals carping about how Democrats – and their leaders, of which he is one – aren’t doing enough to advance progressive policies.

“The extreme left is obsessed with talking trash about mainstream Democrats on Twitter, when the majority of the electorate constitute mainstream Democrats at the polls,” Jeffries, the Democratic caucus chairman, told The New York Times on Wednesday. “In the post-Trump era, the anti-establishment line of attack is lame — when President Biden and Democratic legislators are delivering millions of good-paying jobs, the fastest-growing economy in 40 years and a massive child tax cut.”

Jeffries’ fiery comments came after Rep.-elect Shontel Brown, the establishment favorite, triumphed over Nina Turner, an outspoken liberal former legislator, in an Ohio special election on Tuesday. Brown’s win marked the latest in a series of victories by more pragmatic candidates over more liberal alternatives.

In New York City earlier this summer, moderate Eric Adams defeated Maya Wiley, a liberal favorite, to claim the Democratic nomination for mayor. In a Louisiana House special election in April, Troy Carter defeated Karen Carter Peterson in a contest that CNN cast as a “gauge of the direction of the party more than three months into Biden’s tenure, with voters in the largely Black congressional district choosing between two divergent approaches to politics.”