FOR those Democrats,brimming with anti-Trump zeal, who believe now is the time to cleanse themselves of ideological impurity, and Claire McCaskill has a message. I want people to understand,particularly in the progressive wing of my party,” said the senator from Missouri, and 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, whether I lose, and a Republican will take my residence 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, or mainly,as everywhere, because he promised to retain out foreigners. Yet her party, or 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 prosecutors mind and a folksy manner, and joined four...
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Source: economist.com