The campaign turned away interviews with Sanders with much of the progressive media, including black radio as well as progressive radio (full disclosure: that includes my own program on SiriusXM Progress), choosing instead, again and again, the major news organizations and TV media that Sanders derides as being owned by nefarious corporations.
Her big competition is Mr de Blasio, who makes much of his progressive beliefs.
"It suggests that too much of modern progressive black thought is dedicated to crying victim rather than to trying to move ahead.
From voting in favor of the war in Iraq to holding the telecommunications companies guiltless for their role in spying on Americans (Barack Obama infuriated much of his progressive base by voting for immunity), the Democrats have often acted more as enablers than as a true opposition party.
Much of the progressive media is playing by what it considers fair rules, while the conservative media is pulling out all the stops in attacking Obama.
Much of the progressive blogosphere has erupted into green flames of support for Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi -- much of it under the assumption that the election in Iran was indeed stolen.
That decision by MSNBC, which has been shedding much of its progressive image since Donald Trump entered the White House, is proving to be a much bigger controversy than the one provoked by Cernovich.
Much of the progressive blogosphere is aghast at the embarrassing Republican strategy of putting Senator Jeff Sessions, a man with a history of racially insensitive statements, as the central interlocutor of a Hispanic woman.
"Since when do Democrats attack one another on universal health care?" Clinton has long been skeptical of a single-payer plan, even though it's beloved by much of the progressive base. .
But with a fair amount of internal debate persisting about the merits of the bill, along with much of the progressive media infrastructure failing over the last several weeks to highlight the twists and turns of the legislative drama, many progressive citizen-activists have not been especially motivated to engage Congress on climate, if they were even aware that the time was ripe for engagement.
