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    This Isn’t Dianne Feinstein’s Democratic Party

    The longtime senator from California is likely to win reelection. But the state’s liberal, anti-establishment wing is already winning the future.
    by Todd S. Purdum Jul 21, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Denis Poroy / AP

    LOS ANGELES—If any proof were still needed that California is ground zero of the “Resistance”—not just to Donald Trump, but to establishment politics as usual—it came crashing along this week when the executive committee of the state Democratic Party endorsed Kevin de León, the comparatively obscure former leader of the state Senate, over Dianne Feinstein, the iconic 25-year incumbent, for the U.S. Senate.

    Never mind that Feinstein crushed de León in the state’s last month, winning 2.9 million votes to his 804,000 in a system that sends the top two finishers to the general election, regardless of party affiliation. Never mind that the activist membership of the party committee and de León’s labor-union base do not reflect the broader Democratic electorate, or that Feinstein remains the prohibitive favorite to win in the

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