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    Ilhan Omar says the DFL’s decision demonstrated the “clear tension between the progressive Democrats who are challenging the status quo and moderate Democrats.”

    We need to stop calling them “moderate” Democrats. We need to name them what they are because there’s nothing moderate about them. They are conservative Democrats. They are basically 1980s Republicans.

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      Obama: “The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican.”

      I’ve watched the Democrats move to the right since then