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With progressive radicals Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff on the ballot in the January Georgia Senate run-off elections — it is imperative to revisit why the coming fight matters in the first place. As is well-known, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Presley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) encompass “The Squad.” This identification came to be when AOC posted a picture on Instagram with the four lawmakers at Congressional Freshman Orientation Week — captioned on November 12, 2018. Yes, it is all so very touching. There is a reason “The Squad” have banded together, as should be transparent...

. . . One thing Ossoff has going against him: his persona doesn’t fit this Southern, suburban district. That was the consensus of today’s Morning Joe panel. Even former Obama spokesman Josh Earnest [now an MSNBC analyst] conceded that, for this district, Ossoff is not a candidate “from Central Casting.” Joe Scarborough had the unkindest cut of all, saying that Ossoff looks like “he could have been a walk-on in Warren Beatty’s ‘Reds,'” a movie about American Communists in Russia during the Revolution. Scarborough added that from the perspective of voters in the district, Ossoff looks like “he might be...