The New Republic68%
What’s Really Driving the Left’s Wins In Democratic Primaries? 92%
By Right Now0% Perry Bacon0%
7/17/2026, 10:00:00 AM
Topics: Democratic Party, Elections
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Politically Left Leaning Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 30.6% saturation with 48 hits. Analysis detected 328 faulty-reasoning hits from 157 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.7% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,384 of 16,999 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 91.90% of the article peer group.
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You can read a transcript here.
Incumbent Democrats and establishment candidates are falling across the country to more progressive opponents, most notably in recent primaries in Colorado and New York.
What’s driving these surprisingly results?
A host of factors, including more liberal attitudes among Democratic voters, the robust get-out-the vote operations that the Democratic Socialists of America have built in cities like New York, and the party base’s frustration with the Democratic leadership for losing twice to Donald Trump.
In the latest edition of Right Now, Julia Azari and Seth Masket, two professors who specialize in studying party politics, break down which factors are most and least important in this recent leftward surge in the party.
Azari teaches at Marquette University; Masket at the University of Denver.
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Appeal to Authority
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157 words analyzed.
Analysis
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