Kate Aronoff's latest on primarying Henry Cuellar (D-TX, House)
This is how you write a lead paragraph:
TWO COMPETING VALUES are at work in a coming primary challenge against oil-and-gas-backed Democrat Henry Cuellar, announced last week by Justice Democrats, the group that recruited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to run for office. On the one hand, a new report concluded that if the U.S. proceeds on its current course of drilling — which Cuellar has emphatically supported — humanity will crash through its remaining climate guardrails and risk lurching into apocalyptic warming scenarios.
On the other hand, Cuellar is a really nice guy, and primaries are awfully divisive.
Read the rest here for more insight into the priorities of the Deeply Rational Adults in the Room.
Boy, are those liberal/democratic socialists a bunch of irresponsible fools, or what? See you at the Harvard Club!