Peggy Flanagan’s decisive victory in Minnesota’s Democratic Senate primary is the latest evidence that government-controlled healthcare is moving from the Democratic fringe toward the center of the party.
Flanagan defeated establishment-backed Rep. Angie Craig while campaigning for a system that would ultimately replace most private and employer-sponsored insurance with a single federal plan. Her victory follows Abdul El-Sayed’s nomination for the U.S. Senate in Michigan and William Lawrence’s victory in a competitive Michigan House district. Both campaigned on the same basic approach. Other big government socialist candidates have carried it through Democratic primaries in New York and Colorado.
