Axios: The 'Squad Left' Just Got Clobbered
– In Illinois
Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/19/2026 12:53:39 AM
Has the progressive Left finally hit its high-water mark? Even in deep-blue Illinois? Yesterday, the state that launched Barack Obama's presidency and created Chicago's socialist decline went to the primary polls to nominate midterm candidates. As usual, progressives competed heavily for House and Senate seats, as well as in state legislative races. Most unusually, Axios reports, hard-Left candidates appear to have lost every competitive race in which they contended, running campaigns that featured attacks on Israel as well as Hakeem Jeffries: The left suffered a virtually total collapse in the Illinois Democratic congressional primaries on Tuesday night — even in races where the AIPAC-backed candidate lost.
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Has the progressive Left finally hit its high-water mark? Even in deep-blue Illinois?
Yesterday, the state that launched Barack Obama's presidency and created Chicago's socialist decline went to the primary polls to nominate midterm candidates. As usual, progressives competed heavily for House and Senate seats, as well as in state legislative races. Most unusually, Axios reports, hard-Left candidates appear to have lost every competitive race in which they contended, running campaigns that featured attacks on Israel as well as Hakeem Jeffries:
The left suffered a virtually total collapse in the Illinois Democratic congressional primaries on Tuesday night — even in races where the AIPAC-backed candidate lost.
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Democrats across the country were watching the primaries in Illinois on Tuesday, trying to read the tea leaves to see what might happen in other federal contests.
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Good question. And a surprising source for it, to boot. Did Paramount buy Comcast when we weren't looking?
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Iran's neighbors may not have wanted a war with Tehran. The emirs of the region may resent Donald Trump for demonstrating their vulnerability without the kind of warning they wanted. Now that Trump has finally decided to address the threats Iran's regime poses to the region and the world, however, these Middle East states want him to finish the job and ensure the collapse of the regime.
The question is whether they're willing to pay for it, literally and figuratively:
Gulf Arab states did not ask the US to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short
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It: I&I/TIPP Poll 20 replies
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Cesar Chavez Day canceled by unions after
'troubling' sexual allegations against
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'troubling' sexual allegations against
civil rights leader 17 replies
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