Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Tuesday’s primaries went about as well as mainstream Democrats could hope for. Not only did they get the Texas Senate nominee they wanted in state Rep. James Talarico, but incumbent Rep. Valerie Foushee of North Carolina was also narrowly ahead of her progressive challenger, Nida Allam. Faced with two chances to swing left, Democratic primary voters — barely — stuck with their establishment’s preferred choices.