917: Midterm Axes

Will 2026 be about left vs. center, or "fight" vs. compromise?

As candidates gear up for the midterms, the nature of the 2026 primary is often debated on two axes: ideology and pugnacity.

In today’s Washington Post, Lakshya Jain and Harrison Lavelle make the case that the Democratic base has moved left on both of these measures into a more liberal, fight-over-compromise constituency:

Ideologically, Democratic voters …