When Kathy Hochul is talking about going to “war” in a nationwide, brass-knuckle political fight and Chuck Schumer is going quasi-edge-lord on social media taunting Donald Trump, you know it’s a sea change moment. It’s not because even now you expect the most from these two. It’s because even these two — the most conventional and old school of politicians — clearly see what’s being demanded of them and are trying to get ahead of that wave that is transforming the assumptions about power and political action within the Democratic party.
The whole point of the article is that we’re actually seeing action in the form of voting behavior in Congreess, state reps leaving Texas to prevent a worse gerrymandering, etc.