> And how pray tell, can the Democrats exercise "party discipline"
> on Senators who choose to defy them? The Republicans who
> control executive and legislative power can discipline their
> caucus by threatening to deny them pork for their districts or
> otherwise threaten their reelection
Stop, Nathan! You are engaging in "the concrete analysis of concrete conditions," and that is not permitted in discussions like this. You'll do better analysis when you deal with reified entities like "the" Democratic Party, "the labor bureaucracy," and "political independence," rather than getting bogged down with stubborn, inconvenient fact.
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