elevates politics into the realm of religion.
See the sterling Dems who caucused with the other side:
https://ballotpedia.org/New_York_state_legislative_Democratic_primaries,_2018
In the September 13 Democratic primaries, progressive challengers unseated six of the nine Democratic senators who helped keep Republicans in control of the chamber in recent years.
The senators facing primary challenges included eight former members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) and state Sen. Simcha Felder (D). The IDC caucused with Republicans from 2013 to 2018 and kept them in power even though Democrats often held a numerical majority. Felder caucused with Republicans too, but he was not an IDC member.[1]
In April, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) brokered a deal between IDC leader Jeffrey Klein and mainline Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins where the IDC was dissolved and the caucuses were reunified with Stewart-Cousins as leader and Klein as her deputy. Republicans still controlled the chamber 32-31 with the continued support of Simcha Felder.[1]
Despite the reunification, the primary challenges went forward. The challengers focused on affordable housing policies and criticized former IDC members for having kept Republicans in power. The challengers also said the new mainline Democratic-IDC alliance would not last.
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