Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s Quiet Radicalism

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s Quiet Radicalism

WelcomeFest, held at DC’s Hamilton Hotel on June 4, was the largest post-2024 election gathering to date of self-described centrist Democrats seeking to revive their party’s fortunes. Promoted as showcasing a “common-sense” lane for the party, the event ended up revealing the persistence of an exhausted ideological scaffolding. Politico cast it as a clash between “a who’s-who of center-left Democratic politics” and progressive upstarts. Progress…