{"id":72511,"date":"2019-10-30T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72511"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:19:20","slug":"aint-seen-nothing-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72511","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t Seen Nothing Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You thought the DFL was crazy-left?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But tomorrow&#8217;s DFL is demented batspittle-crazy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A bevy of progressives are challenging longtime Democratic incumbents in the Legislature in next year\u2019s elections, potentially sending more women, millennials and people of color to the State Capitol while shifting the DFL dialogue to the left.<br>The movement is a muscular show of influence among emerging voter blocs that have already transformed the DFL coalition but now seek the real prize: an election certificate that will earn them a seat at the table and the opportunity to move billions of dollars in state funding.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farther to the left than Alice &#8220;The Phantom&#8221; Hausman?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Tanner Sunderman, a 25-year-old Roseville resident challenging longtime Rep. Alice Hausman of St. Paul in the first-ring suburbs, said now is the time. \u201cWe\u2019re done waiting,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On election night 2018, watching the disappointing results, I urged conservatives not to go off the ledge; Democrats with power are like crack addicts with a stolen Amex card.  They just can&#8217;t stop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You thought the DFL was crazy-left? It is. But tomorrow&#8217;s DFL is demented batspittle-crazy: A bevy of progressives are challenging longtime Democratic incumbents in the Legislature in next year\u2019s elections, potentially sending more women, millennials and people of color to the State Capitol while shifting the DFL dialogue to the left.The movement is a muscular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72512,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511\/revisions\/72512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}