The constituency that Pelosi is most indebted to for her Speakership is affluent suburbanites. She& #39;s the Speaker because of their voting patterns in 2018, and she needs them again in 2020. That& #39;s the constituency the House Dem Caucus is legislating for https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-24/democrats-have-become-the-party-of-upper-middle-class?utm_source=url_link">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...

This also helps explain why Russiagate and impeachment were such huge legislative priorities after Democrats won control of the House in 2018. Those issues animate the highly activated, obsessively anti-Trump left/liberal activist demographic in affluent suburban constituencies

A recent article from American Affairs editor Julius Krein touches on a related theme ( https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-war/).">https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/t... It should be read as supplementary to our article on the failure of the Bernie campaign ( https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce/)">https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/f...

Conservatives are often better at analyzing trends in left-liberalism than left-liberals themselves, because one of the defining characteristics of left-liberals is being in a constant state of self-denial

Krein also skewers modern conservatism in his article, just in case one of the prerequisites for you to consider reading is equal opportunity skewering