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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Amazon decision a win for Democrats’ rising left wing
Some celebrate
behemoth’s exit
By LISA MASCARO and
STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
What is happening to the
Democrats?
Captivated by a hand-
ful of liberal superstars,
they are venturing where
the party has long feared
to tread: Steep taxes on the
rich. Abolishing an immi-
gration enforcement agency.
Proposing “economic trans-
formation” to combat cli-
mate change. Gleefully
waving goodbye to a big
business — and its jobs.
On Thursday, new-
ly-elected Rep. Alexan-
dria Ocasio-Cortez led a
chorus of cheers as Ama-
zon announced it was aban-
doning plans to build a
sought-after headquarters
in New York City. Activ-
ists berated the online giant
for a $3 billion package of
tax breaks she said the city
could better invest in hir-
ing teachers or fi xing the
subway.
This is not the Demo-
cratic Party of yesteryear. Or
even last year.
“The Amazon New York
fi ght is an illustration of how
power is moving to the left,”
said Ben Wikler, of the lib-
eral group MoveOn. “One
of the world’s most pow-
erful organizations doesn’t
want to pick a fi ght with
progressive activists.”
As the liberal fl ank cel-
ebrates its sudden ascen-
dance in the party, energized
by the new House freshmen
pushing the party toward
bold policy solutions, others
wonder if the Democrats are
veering so far left they’re
about to fall off a cliff.
Matt Bennett, vice pres-
ident of Third Way, a cen-
ter-left think tank, says,
the leftward drift “could
be trouble” if Democrats
aren’t offering a vision of
the country that speaks to
ordinary voters ahead of the
2020 presidential election.
“Bashing Amazon will
get you cheers in precincts
in the left and online, but
that seems bananas to most
people who think it would
be good to work at a job that
pays well,” Bennett said.
“The risk is that the eventual
nominee goes too far during
this primary process and
becomes hard to support for
a lot of people who might be
interested in getting rid of
(President Donald) Trump.”
It’s a valid debate ahead
of a presidential primary
season with an unusu-
ally robust roster of con-
tenders trying to wrest the
White House from Trump.
The race comes at a time of
shifting party loyalties and
eroding confi dence in tradi-
tional corridors of power, a
dynamic that has recast the
policy prescriptions of both
parties.
The big questions for
2020: Will Democrats move
beyond the center-left pol-
icies that have dominated
the party since Bill Clin-
ton’s presidency? And if so,
will they fi nd the elector-
ate is repelled, as Republi-
cans claim, or will they dis-
cover that a country long
described as “center-right”
is receptive to a return to
liberalism?
Democratic pollster John
AP Photo/Kathy Willens
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, waves to
the crowd in January after speaking at a Women’s Unity Rally
organized by Women’s March NYC at Foley Square in Lower
Manhattan.
Anzalone said the leftward
lurch that’s playing out in
the Amazon fi ght wouldn’t
necessarily hurt the party
heading into 2020 and could
resonate with voters.
“When you’re doing cor-
porate giveaways, whether
for a big company or a sports
team, it’s not as cut-and-
dry as most people think,”
Anzalone said. “The fact
is there tends to be a belief
that these big corporations
have a lot of money and use
their power to get deals they
don’t need.”
As if to highlight the
churn within the party, the
2020 class was mixed in
their reactions.
A spokesman for for-
mer New York City mayor
Michael Bloomberg didn’t
respond to a request for
comment. Howard Schultz,
another
business-minded
former Democrat who’s
now weighing an indepen-
dent bid for president, also
declined to comment.
Massachusetts Sen. Eliz-
abeth Warren and Vermont
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who
have long railed against the
infl uence of corporations,
weighed in, as did New York
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
“The people of New York
and America are increas-
ingly concerned about the
power of large multina-
tional corporations and the
billions in corporate wel-
fare they receive,” Sanders
said in a statement. “Our job
is to end the race to the bot-
tom where taxpayers in one
city or state are forced to bid
against each other for des-
perately needed jobs. This is
what the rigged economy is
all about.”
Warren tweeted: “One
of the wealthiest companies
on the planet — just walked
away from billions in tax-
payer bribes, all because
some elected offi cials in
New York aren’t sucking up
to them enough. How long
will we allow giant corpora-
tions to hold our democracy
hostage?”
And Gillibrand said,
“Walking away so quickly
shows that Amazon was
interested in the taxpayer
assistance and not being a
good neighbor in Queens
hiring the greatest workers
in the world.”
As
liberal
activists
across the country wel-
comed Amazon’s deci-
sion as a fresh demonstra-
tion of the increasing power
of the Democratic Party’s
far-left wing, Republicans
highlighted the same thing,
using the situation to cast
the modern-day Democratic
Party as extreme. Following
Trump’s lead, they pepper
their speeches with claims
that Democrats are veering
toward socialism.
“Now, thousands of
#New Yorkers will be
deprived of good paying
jobs at #amazon because of
socialists like @AOC —
and unfortunately the prom-
ise of a #greenjob won’t pay
the bills,” former Trump
aide Sean Spicer said on
Twitter.
In New York, Democratic
state Sen. Todd Kaminsky
of Long Island issued a for-
mal “invitation” to the com-
pany to relocate to Nassau
County.
Sen. John Barrasso of
Wyoming, a member of
Republican leadership, said,
“It is so interesting to watch
this very hard left turn that
the Democrat party has
taken. To me, this is just so
extreme. It’s way out of the
mainstream.”
On Capitol Hill, it’s hard
not to compare the arrival
of Ocasio-Cortez and the
emerging
Democratic
divide to the tea party class
of 2010 that took control of
the House and pushed the
Republican agenda right-
ward, ultimately helping
give rise to the politics of
Trump.
It’s not just Ocasio-Cor-
tez. She and House col-
leagues — Reps. Ilhan Omar
of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib
of Michigan and Ayanna
Pressley of Massachusetts
— jointly announced their
opposition to the bipartisan
border security deal. They
want to cut the Department
of Homeland Security’s
budget over the administra-
tion’s deportation policies,
including those that sepa-
rated families at the border.
The four lawmakers were
urged on by activists out-
side the Capitol, protesting
what’s seen as Immigration
and Customs Enforcement’s
unnecessarily harsh depor-
tations and raids against
immigrants here illegally.
Omar, who is Mus-
lim-American, pushed the
party further into confl ict
last week with comments
about Israel that were widely
seen as anti-Semitic. She
apologized. But the ques-
tions she and others are rais-
ing about the longstanding
U.S. ally refl ect a growing
unease among some Demo-
crats with Israel’s treatment
of Palestinians.
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi says the Demo-
cratic Party’s diversity in
the House is its strength, as
evidenced by the way her
caucus held unifi ed against
Trump’s demand for money
from Congress to build the
wall on the border with
Mexico.
“Welcome to the Dem-
ocratic Party,” Pelosi said
Thursday. “We are not a
monolith, never have been.
And who would want to
lead a party that would be
described that way?”
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