Steve Israel: “Both of these races will test this proposition, do Democratic voters want purity and ideology on the left? Or do they…”

The reality is out there that we all need to guard against this authoritarian effort, that is yes, born out of the Republican Party, unfortunately, but it is.

I can tell you, Long Islanders, they will tolerate disagreement with their Member of Congress. They will not tolerate dishonesty.

Ronald Reagan has to be spinning in his grave at the prospect of the conservative movement that used to be the bulwark against tyranny in the world, giving the stage to a tyrant who endorses and supports Vladimir Putin.

Our democracy is so frayed, right now that fundamental questions of fitness and truth are just put in the background as long as you are extreme enough.