By Susan B. Glasser ; excerpt:

[....] He had got a minimum-wage hike passed in Chicago, to bring it up to thirteen dollars an hour over five years; the state of Illinois remained at eight dollars and twenty-five cents an hour. But the left criticized him for not raising it to fifteen dollars an hour. “To me, this is where I would say to everybody, ‘Chicago is moving in a progressive fashion. Get the caboose known as Springfield to move. O.K., that’s hard work,’ ” he said. “So, yes, I know where the energy is, etc. I’m just not into left or right, or real far left versus real far right.”

In the end, Emanuel and a surprising number of other Democratic leaders with whom I’ve spoken in recent months maintain that their party’s divisions are more stylistic than ideological: Sanders pledges free college for all; Chicago’s mayor experiments with a limited version—free community college for some.

“I think we spend too much time in the firing squad in a circle,” Emanuel said. “To win, we have established our no. We now have to establish our yes with equal fervor.”[....]