2018 Election: Congress: 10 Bernie Sanders Progressive Democrats,  10 NatSec Veterans  elected P1
Channel: aligzanduh
Date: 2018-11-08

link to part 2 of this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abSiEdS6DyQ Playlist of all 3 parts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1nIdq4Q-2zsgoUsPq-6Z6AQ8yNM8OWPN&disable_polymer=true 
Link to spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EfB2Qlf7sGJxBAKdIDPTjuLAVntv0QBpm6fuRxQSqZo/edit#gid=737008794 
Bernie Progressives
Grijalva AZ
Gabbard HI
Chuy Garcia IL
Jamie Raskin MD
Rashida Tlaib MI
Ilhan Omar MN
Deb Haaland NM
Ocasio-Cortez NY
Veronica Escobar TX
Pramila Jayapal WA

Military Industrial Candidates
Jason Crow Colorado: Sixth District
Elissa Slotkin Michigan: Eighth District
Mikie Sherrill New Jersey: Eleventh District
Tom Malinowski New Jersey: Seventh District
Andy Kim New Jersey: Third District
Max Rose New York: Eleventh District
Conor Lamb Pennsylvania: Seventeenth District
Chrissy Houlahan Pennsylvania: Sixth District
Gina Ortiz-Jones Texas: Twenty-Third District
Elaine Luria Virginia: Second District
Abigail Spanberger Virginia: Seventh District

Observations
The Military Industrial Candidates – where they have won, have won almost exclusively in Republican districts. As such they do not at this point pose a threat to the progressive wing, unless they vote as viciously as their predecessors, which we can assume will be the case.
The Bernie Candidates have won exclusively in Democratic Districts.
We have 7 new progressives
Would they all oppose escalation of tensions with Russia? Pressuring Israel into a 2 state solution? Ending aid to PetroMonarchies and their military interventions, both conventional and asymmetric, in the middle east? Will they vote against the NIAA and the NDAA?
These National Security candidates will likely be as hawkish as their Republican predecessors, but they are less likely to be fiscally extreme on matters like medicare, regulation, etc, more akin to Clinton-Obama with a touch of Joe Manchin thrown in.
So we can understand from the Clinton Centrist Third Way DLC perspective why the Bernie Progressives are a pain. They are winning at the national level in Democratic districts. The Corporate Democrats must be having spasms of ecstasy seeing 10 of their 28 seats gained courtesy of national security democrats.
A system built on “waiting your turn” and rewarding loyalty does not take kindly to non well heeled insurgents, who then burn up the donors funds in primaries.
However 2020 will be quite different, as the primary progressive if they are of the caliber of Bernie Sanders, should drive turnout of progressive voters to challenge in places like Oklahoma and Colorado.
I would agree with others that Democrats appearing more focused on going after Trump over his intrigues, rather than clearly putting forward a progressive agenda, created the situation in the Senate, as we certainly could have put more people who vote for special interests under pressure and exposed. Instead the Democrats and their supporters in the media have not focused on Trumps extremely damaging policies of massive military increases (Which they full throatedly endorse!) and his massive tax cuts for the rich, wherein we see no clear vision articulated about focusing on policies that benefit working class everyday people.
With RussiaGate we have chimerical tales, but with Israelgate with the release of the Israel Lobby, we have the hard evidence of meddling at a grand scale. Even with this awareness, the man Trump chose to invite in and watch the election with him was Sheldon Adelson, an advocate of an ultra warlike posture of Israel with an incredibly harsh treatment of Palestinians, and Trump’s principal backer, along with Bannons Meltzer