https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-democrats-should-worry-about-conor-lambs-victory-w517866

in the future and it's not good. "The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is pursuing a centrist strategy for winning in the fall, working in close coordination with the Blue Dog Coalition."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-17/democrats-see-conservative-blue-dogs-as-key-to-winning-house

>His victory speech made a really big deal out of protecting
>universal social programs and said nice things about unions,
>which seems to me like a move away from recent centrist
>decisions to:
>

Hopefully he stays true to the words he spoke in that speech. This doesn't look good

"If Lamb made anything clear in his campaign, it's that he most certainly will vote with Trump on occasion. On guns, for one thing: Lamb opposes a ban on assault weapons, such as the AR-15 he was shown firing in one of his campaign ads. He supports the president's trade policies, too including the new tariffs. He pooh-poohs single-payer healthcare. He's as "pro-military" as a person could be. (He is also "personally opposed" to abortion, though he says it should be legal.)

Lamb, for all his fresh-faced charm, ran and won as a Trump Democrat – a flashback to the "Republican Lite" candidacies the Democrats specialized in during the Clinton '90s and '00s. He was so reluctant to criticize the president that NBC reporter Kacie Hunt made it her mission on Tuesday to ask him about Trump and try to extract something. Lamb wouldn't rise to the bait:

Conor Lamb has no comment on whether President Trump is a stable commander in chief based on today's events.

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) March 13, 2018"


>a)not mention them at all
>b)pretend like means-testing isn't creepy
>
>It's all just talk, and the kind of frenzied
>I-just-got-elected talk, no less. But Jones et al. never
>really even seemed to bother with this. It feels like we're
>seeing some genuinely talented political opportunists
>(Gillibrand and Booker come immediately to mind) starting to
>move leftward a little bit. I don't trust their principles,
>but I really trust their ability to read the room.
>

Well they have to start with baby steps somewhere. I'll take Booker over the other opportunists.

>Here's a clip of his victory speech:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ZyLppT25g&app=desktop
>
>I thought Mike Konczal's point about this was encouraging:
>
>Mike Konczal
>‏
>Verified account
>
>@rortybomb
> 12h12 hours ago
>
>At 38 I’m of an age where when I hear a Democrat saying
>“Social Security and Medicare are great” I instinctively
>flinch, waiting for the inevitable “....BUT” to follow it
>demanding Tough Solutions and Grand Bargains.
>
>Amazing if we got to where universal and bold is celebrated.

True