FOR those Democrats, brimming with anti-Trump zeal, who think now is the time to cleanse themselves of ideological impurity, Claire McCaskill has a message. “I want people to understand, particularly in the progressive wing of my party,” said the senator from Missouri, who is fighting a tough battle for re-election in November, “that it’s not just a question of whether I am perfect for them on all the issues. It is that, if I lose, a Republican will take my place who’d be anathema to them on every issue.”
Speaking on the fringe of a campaign event in St Louis, Missouri’s second city, Ms McCaskill had had a trying week. Her state elected President Donald Trump by a 19-point margin, mainly, as everywhere, because he promised to keep out foreigners. Yet her party, egged on by its progressives, had just shut down the federal government in a botched bid to protect a multitude of illegal immigrants. Ms McCaskill, a tough operator with a prosecutor’s mind and a folksy manner, joined four...Continue reading
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