The time for litmus tests and artful dodges has passed.
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"I don't believe in litmus tests for judges," he said.
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"I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests," Ossoff said.
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We have all these cultural litmus tests — 'You don't like The Graduate?
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"I don't have litmus tests around any of these issues", he said.
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I have a bunch of litmus tests because I agree with you.
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The point of establishing litmus tests is to embrace candidates who meet them.
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"The best litmus tests for early ideas are people's reactions to things," he said.
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He has zero interest in ideological litmus tests or pie-in-sky policy proposals.
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Liberals may want to apply policy litmus tests; moderates may just want a winner.
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This figure shows the timing and types of litmus tests from 1928 to 2016.
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This is one of those interview litmus tests of how forthcoming you are, Taylor warns.
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Those votes will be litmus tests on how confident investors are in his business acumen.
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"Ideological litmus tests on a spending bill like this simply create partisan roadblocks," he added.
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Do you feel that abortion litmus tests are necessary for the Democratic Party in red states?
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And Democratic policy debates, now reoriented around an unapologetic progressive agenda, are litigated through litmus tests.
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Likewise, we should not blackball candidates because they do not pass all of our litmus tests.
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What were once heretical positions are now becoming litmus tests for politicians on the national stage.
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Andrew believes that litmus tests are unhelpful for a big-tent party like the Democratic Party.
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Foreign policy is not about an altar boy litmus tests; it is about advancing U.S. interests.
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Third, there is a big difference between Republican and Democratic litmus tests for Supreme Court nominees.
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"There wasn't a demand among Democratic primary voters for litmus tests," said Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster.
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First, Republican Party platforms are now open and explicit about policy litmus tests for Supreme Court nominees.
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The way to resolve the paradox is to eschew ideological litmus tests and insist on rhetorical ones instead.
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"The best litmus tests for early ideas are people's reactions to things," the star of "The Profit " told CNBC.
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So, I'd like to offer a different perspective: What if political litmus tests are actually a really great thing?
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Trump proved that movement conservative ideas and litmus tests don't really have any purchase on millions of Republican voters.
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" Recent platforms have become, he said, "these laundry lists and litmus tests of 'thou shalts' and 'thou shalt nots.
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To maintain consistency, however, advertisers should explain the litmus tests they are using and apply them across all media.
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"Tom doesn't believe in litmus tests and never said he doesn't support pro-life candidates," the DNC aide said.
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"We cannot become the party of the checklist," said Ms. Raimondo, alluding to litmus tests on cultural flash points.
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Now is not the time to enact arbitrary litmus tests that will create even more chaos within the party.
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Trump was a Republican because he ran as one and attacked Democrats, Paul Ryan's conservative litmus tests be damned.
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He paid no attention to all of those litmus tests that all the politicians thought they had to meet.
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In all three cases, these topics are shaping up as the new litmus tests for liberal activists heading into 2020.
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I don't have litmus tests, and I've never been an enemy of people who don't think the way I do.
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But given the events of the past two weeks, the effect of not having litmus tests is suddenly very clear.
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"The president believes that the proper consideration for a nominee to the court is not about litmus tests," Pence said.
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Museum leaders generally do not vet donors and trustees for their personal or political views or apply ideological litmus tests.
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Before 1968, policy litmus tests were unknown, and may have been seen as outside the bounds of normal American politics.
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But in this highly polarized atmosphere, the chief justice appears to be trying to avoid ideological litmus tests at the court.
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Rather than creating ideological litmus tests for "certain fields," we should promote discussion and engagement among those who hold opposing viewpoints.
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It makes clear that Republicans (coded in red) have employed litmus tests earlier and more often than Democrats (coded in blue).
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It's become one of the main litmus tests of the 2020 presidential race: What are you going to do about student debt?
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It's one of the major litmus tests for 2020 candidates for the Democratic nomination for president: Do you support Medicare for All?
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And what if the people creating all the fear-mongering around litmus tests are actually the ones deserving of an eyebrow raise?
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Self-identify as a center-right moderate looking for the government to solve some problems with common sense – not ideological litmus tests.
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" But a DNC official later clarified that Perez "doesn't believe in litmus tests and never said he doesn't support pro-life candidates.
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For decades now, Democrats have criticized Republicans over suspected abortion litmus tests, denouncing those as an attack on judicial independence and integrity.
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Cuellar, facing that map, has argued that constituents need a congressman who's not too left-wing, and who doesn't sweat litmus tests.
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Y.: He passed President Trump&aposs litmus tests -- repeal women&aposs freedom for their reproductive rights and repeal America&aposs health care. SEN.
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Kasich's record is hardly left-wing, and he clearly passes more conservative litmus tests than the record Mitt Romney campaigned on in 2012.
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Some conservative interest groups and media outlets have raised concerns that Loeffler does not pass certain ideological litmus tests, particularly on abortion. Rep.
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But so are the principles that we don't enshrine any one creed or submit anyone — including those running for office — to religious litmus tests.
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I've developed a couple of litmus tests to answer this question: Does the user actually want to talk to someone to complete the transaction?
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Beware of candidates at any level of government who spend so much time besmirching litmus tests and strumming to "Kumbaya" in a campfire jamboree.
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"The problem is Medicare for all just isn't one of those litmus tests for Democratic primary voters," Democratic strategist John Anzalone told the outlet.
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A year before the voting begins, the series of liberal ideas are creating early litmus tests and potentially setting up long-term political landmines.
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On the more practical level, Thakran said there are some basic litmus tests he runs, including a "smell test" to see if business interests match.
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Back in 2018, the goal was to take back the House, and opponents of litmus tests — including then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen.
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As president, Trump clearly wouldn't apply ideological litmus tests to decisions, but identify what he perceived to be America's interests and decide on that basis.
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TV that there would be a number of notable litmus tests for candidates in the 2020 Democratic primaries because the field will be so large.
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Religious litmus tests are wrong—whether they occur in my party or whether its Democratic Senators who have questioned Catholic judges' ability to be unbiased.
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That is, as engaged partisans they're more likely to have particular litmus tests, more likely to have specific issues or causes that they care about.
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Or, alternatively, it requires him to weave and stagger between the two approaches, tilting left on litmus tests while reassuring moderates with his public style.
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And in a primary where some top candidates have already sought to establish progressive litmus tests on key issues, what does Mr. O'Rourke actually believe?
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Presumably, additional litmus tests will apply to other issues, from religious rights to gay rights, as nominees check off positions like a dim sum menu.
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As shown in the figure, Democratic Party platforms and acceptance speeches rarely impose specific policy litmus tests outside abortion, and even there are somewhat inconsistent.
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Jeb Bush was asked whether he, like Bernie Sanders, approves of case-based "litmus tests" so Supreme Court appointees' ideology would not come as a surprise.
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald said Tuesday that major stories like the Russia probe often serve as "ideological litmus tests" for voters on both sides of the aisle.
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It's less about policy litmus tests and more about a person's approach to process — that is, someone willing to go to Washington to compromise and legislate.
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Dr. Perry has made her staunch opposition to abortion a centerpiece of her campaign, but Winning for Women won't apply litmus tests, Ms. Perez-Cubas said.
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No matter how much you want to tout progressive economics, the intersectionality woke members of your coalition will always impose their pc litmus tests upon you.
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Faced with these new litmus tests, those wishing to tap into "reform" networks and funding mostly share those beliefs, learn to mimic them, or hush up.
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This ad runs it down in Biden's own words: tackling health care and climate change, minus the litmus tests that left-wing activists have asked for.
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Luján said there will be no litmus tests for candidates as the Democrats look to find a winning roster to regain the House majority in 2018.
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And that&aposs why they want to stack the courts with people who are going to check their own litmus tests on abortion and on other issues.
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And it's a populism that the G.O.P. is discovering has a lot more appeal to many of its voters than the litmus tests of the official right.
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Voters increasingly vote for candidates at every level of government using the same litmus tests, and they also get their information about politics exclusively from national sources.
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Under any other circumstances, black pastors, especially, would have presented a far greater resistance to the advance of the left's litmus tests that vilify faith-based perspectives.
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This season it was clear after the Venice, Telluride, and Toronto Film Festivals — all litmus tests for awards-minded pictures — that it wouldn't be another #OscarsSoWhite year.
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Feinstein has said she does not back a single-payer health care system, one of an increasing number of litmus tests progressive voters want their representatives to pass.
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Now, in the middle of a presidential race, candidates will be asked who should replace Scalia, and what kind of litmus tests they would place on a nominee.
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It was a change in philosophy, from welcoming the heterodox newcomer to kicking out Republicans who didn't pass their litmus tests on abortion, guns, taxes — you name it.
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Spokespeople for the DNC, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee all said they have no litmus tests when it comes to investing in races.
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And I think in our current political climate, that&aposs getting more difficult to do because people, you know, they kind of have these litmus tests for everything.
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Pro-abortion litmus tests from any political party can drive away the millions of voters who believe that life begins at conception and who find unrestricted abortion intolerable.
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Lipinski argued that Democrats need to avoid ideological litmus tests if they want to win back the white working-class voters who have abandoned them in recent elections.
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Thus differences over whether the federal government should offer a public health-insurance option or introduce a single-payer system can become litmus tests for the party's progressive wing.
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But Trump shocked the political world when he proclaimed that he would try to be "neutral" in the conflict -- defying one of the biggest litmus tests in Republican politics.
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They call to mind a big debate that Democrats had last year: Should the Democratic party have litmus tests for candidates as a means of determining who to support?
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"I do have a litmus test, I have a bunch of litmus tests, because the next president could get as many as three appointments," the former first lady responded.
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Candidates can be frank about their litmus tests, but Presidents, and their judicial nominees, are supposed to be more circumspect—though everyone knows the likely result is the same.
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The question is one of several Trump-focused litmus tests that has been added to a questionnaire that candidates for political appointments across the federal government must now complete.
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What makes this worrisome is that we have seen other troubling pledges during the Democratic primaries in recent years, including the use of litmus tests for Supreme Court nominees.
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Typically, railroad stocks tend to rally in sync with the economy, making them good litmus tests for gauging whether the economy is as strong as it seems, Cramer said.
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Science continually nudges us towards the truth that babies in the womb are fully human, and it is having political consequences — as will pro-abortion litmus tests for candidates.
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There is some reason to believe that wager might pay off in an election when Democratic voters appear less concerned with ideological litmus tests than with defeating Mr. Trump.
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And the task is sure to be complicated by liberal activists pushing the party to adhere to the very litmus tests — on abortion, on guns, on immigration — that Hoyer dismissed.
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He has said that the Democrats need to avoid litmus tests, believing that such standards make people feel as though the Democrats are not open to voters of all viewpoints.
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The challenge for Democrats in 2019 and 2020 is to ignore the noise of ideological litmus tests and instead capitalize on our advantage on key issues that directly impact American families.
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Yet, those of us who respect blackness recognize that it is also one of the few true litmus tests for a national conscience (that we keep failing) and therefore is indispensable.
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So perhaps Trumpism can be understood as a coup by the G.O.P.'s ideologically flexible minority against the conservative movement's litmus tests; indeed to some extent that's clearly what's been happening.
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The gravity of this matter has clearly eluded Donald Trump, who has cast aside the Constitution and decades of jurisprudence by suggesting both ethnic and religious litmus tests for federal judges.
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Members of this camp include DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján, who said in a recent interview with The Hill that there will be no litmus tests on abortion for Democratic candidates.
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With the ocean's warming and unimaginable pollution like plastic floating and dissolving in the oceans, what the whales are telling us is one of the key litmus tests of our time.
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A person familiar with the fundraiser Wednesday said that Ryan would still back Zeldin in the 2018 midterm elections, and that there are not "litmus tests" for Republicans seeking Ryan's support.
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The sudden appearance and proliferation of litmus tests in the party platforms reflects the prominence of interest groups and issue enthusiasts in the parties after the nominating reforms of the 1970s.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls, under fierce pressure from liberal activists and base voters, are racing to embrace a series of progressive policy proposals that are quickly emerging as litmus tests ahead of 2020.
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Jeff Flake took a moment to denounce the former judge's comment about Ellison as the Arizona Republican delivered a speech on the Senate floor about a judicial nominee and religious litmus tests.
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Some of them will be familiar to the casual succulent caretaker: the floret-like echeverias, small cactuses and snake plants that many of us use as litmus tests for our green thumbs.
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The modern GOP is scarred by primaries, litmus tests and outside groups that discourage deal making, where chairmen, senior statesmen and leaders lose elections over the mere suggestion of cutting a deal.
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But I think certain types of frames [could work], like saying that we shouldn't have religious litmus tests for people who are coming into this country because it goes against our founding principles.
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The senator's views on issues like universal health care and his willingness to shun corporate contributions have increasingly become not only part of the Democratic mainstream but also litmus tests within the party.
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It's a provision the ACLU has condemned as a violation of the First Amendment, arguing that states do not have a legal right to impose political litmus tests on companies seeking state business.
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They carry their litmus tests everywhere they go and harass non-Sanders supporters in real life (and at the events of other candidates), on social media, in their phone calls and in texts.
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To avoid the disaster that befell Labor, U.S. progressives need to relax their litmus tests, assessing candidates instead on the broad range of their proposals and what their records say about their values.
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" ON WHETHER ABORTION LITMUS TESTS ARE NECESSARY FOR DEMOCRATS:"I have to say that I am proud to be a Democrat, and I'm proud of all the progress that's happened in my own lifetime.
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Chief among them are inflexible ideological litmus tests on certain issues, such as abortion and gay rights, while internal disagreements over political issues like immigration, as well as core theological concerns, were shrugged off.
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Democrats now promise to get commitments on how justices will rule, and it is not clear how broad such litmus tests will become with late term abortions or state requirements on licensing for services.
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It shouldn't take a question about litmus tests for choosing federal judges for nominations to come up at a presidential debate; the word should have been the first one out of every candidate's mouth.
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The bottom line: In a race that has been characterized by 2020 Democrats creating new litmus tests to measure themselves against Trump, calling for his impeachment has slowly become the standard for all candidates.
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Whether the issue is a religious ban or some new nation-focused approach, some of the Republican Party's most prominent leaders understandably take issue with the idea of banning immigrants according to such litmus tests.
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Lipinski, who opposes abortion and gay marriage, says Democrats need to avoid ideological litmus tests if they want to win back the working-class voters who supported Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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But Trump alone seemed to recognize that for his base, his voters — isolated and holding on for dear life against an endless attack from a culture and a demography — the old litmus tests didn't apply.
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At the same time, these new litmus tests have prompted worries that candidates may be setting themselves up for trouble in the 21625 general election, which Trump is already casting as a referendum on socialism.
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Women's and LGBTQ rights are always a good litmus tests for social progress, and young feminist voices are growing just as the state's efforts to suppress them are, with more activism both on and offline.
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Tabling any replacement for Justice Scalia by resolution would demonstrate that Republicans' disagreement is not with any particular nominee but with this unpopular president, and his record, and his ideological litmus tests for any justice.
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When Warren hit him over the same thing, he accused her of hypocrisy (harder to do with Sanders) and said that Democrats would have a hard enough time beating Trump without piling litmus tests onto donors.
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And that is one of the, I think in our current political climate, the people, that&aposs getting more difficult to do because people take, you know, they kind of have these litmus tests for everything.
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But it is by no means clear that this posture of being above the fray, preoccupied with great moral questions rather than white papers and political litmus tests, is sustainable in a very crowded Democratic race.
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And his record on policing as mayor, as well as his generally favorable view of Wall Street, would likely have proven troublesome in a field that is establishing litmus tests on social justice and corporate power.
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But scientists were archiving data, they were worried that data was going to be disappeared, they were worried that there were going to be these litmus tests for which federal scientists were going to keep their jobs.
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The situation becomes murkier still, he added, as we determine litmus tests for vulnerability: Should a prominent, economically well-off gay politician like Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated for his racist remarks against Muslims, be considered oppressed?
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Yet, a number of Democratic candidates are insisting on imposing impossible litmus tests of climate purity that seem to fulfill the Trump stereotype, and will only come back to haunt the eventual Democratic nominee if acceded to.
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Her spokeswoman Annie Clark told the Portland Press Herald that Collins "always looks at their judicial temperament" and "respect for precedent" when evaluating judges, and then clarified that the senator "does not apply ideological litmus tests" to nominees.
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This was partly because of far-reaching litmus tests: No one who'd uttered a word of criticism of Trump in the past could get a White House job or a major role in the cabinet and regulatory agencies.
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As for immigration, Bush said at a forum earlier this month he was against religious litmus tests when Trump first unveiled the "Muslim ban" but noted the policy had been reformed several times since it was first implemented.
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Many Democrats and Republicans are coming to the realization that to win national elections they need to appeal to independent voters and voters whose values don't necessary align with "litmus tests" and who are more practical than ideological.
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Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who has chosen not to sign on to Sanders' proposal, nor has she endorsed the Green New Deal, both of which are becoming litmus tests for Democratic candidates in the eyes of progressive activists.
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If 225 has divided Democratic politics into a puzzle of litmus tests, stark ideological labels, and an unending referendum on the mistakes of the campaign that made Donald Trump president, then Booker is a jagged piece at the center.
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Not to mention, has anyone ever noticed that the common litmus tests we're told to eschew — abortion, immigration, healthcare, to name a few — are often those where their greatest negative impact is on the most marginalized groups in America?
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All indications are that she will seek to barrel full-speed ahead from day one on "free" college, tax increases, expanding Obamacare and the federal role in pre-K education, and unapologetically applying progressive litmus tests to judicial appointees.
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While we're at it, it doesn't help the DNC's image when stories are written about how the party won't impose "litmus tests" for anti-abortion candidates, or when victorious Democratic campaigns give more credit to grassroots groups than the national committees.
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There is certainly some pretence in Mr Obama's statement—he must have been reasonably sure, for example, that his eventual nominee, Elena Kagan, would vote to uphold abortion rights—but there is a good reason presidents have disavowed litmus tests.
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In the last debate, she rattled off a laundry list of "litmus tests" that she would use to bend the Supreme Court to achieve a series of left-wing policy priorities ranging from pro-abortion absolutism to censoring political speech.
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The U.S. Constitution does not allow state-contracted, taxpayer-funded agencies to use religious litmus tests in screening prospective foster or adoptive parents for children in the state foster care system, or to discriminate against same-sex couples, the ACLU said.
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Litmus tests are dubious tools: many potential nominees will not have a record indicating how they would rule on the matter, and it is uncouth for a president or senator to ask (or for a nominee to answer) such direct questions.
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IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES CAMPAIGNS & POLITICS: More and more, the 2020 Democratic field is being dominated by progressive policies that have become more mainstream over time and are quickly becoming litmus tests for candidates, according to Mike Lillis and Max Greenwood.
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Traditionally, museums have argued that they do not apply ideological litmus tests to their donors or trustees, a position of principle, but also one that enabled often cash-challenged nonprofit institutions to accept financing from the widest spectrum of individuals.
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Through these plans, the Sanders campaign has tried to create progressive litmus tests for the rest of the field, calling on campaigns to reject insurance and drug company donations, join in the call for a federal fracking ban, and so forth.
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"I do not apply ideological litmus tests to nominees, but I want to see integrity, intellect, a respect for precedent and adherence to the rule of law," moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins told Reuters when asked about Roe v. Wade.
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Meanwhile, throughout the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump devised a series of litmus tests for whomever he was to nominate to the Court, which he promised would come from a list of names produced by the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society, two conservative organizations.
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Democratic leaders are so allergic to the notion of litmus tests they're willing to equivocate on abortion rights—an issue that has long formed a key plank of the party's platform and that crosses the left-center divide, uniting Clintonistas and Berniecrats.
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Does Gorsuch have an ironclad commitment to rule according to the words and values enshrined in our Constitution and laws, or will he rule by the litmus tests that Trump and conservatives expect Gorsuch has already passed as a precondition of being nominated?
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For those who think a meaningful school reform coalition can and must encompass those who have good-faith disagreements about economic policy, immigration, and the "woke" agenda, finding a way to rethink these litmus tests represents both a challenge and an opportunity.
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He marches to his own policy drum and declined to sign on to all the primary's progressive litmus tests, saying that while he agrees in "spirit" with Medicare for All, free college, and the Green New Deal, none would work out in practice.
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Supporting candidates such as Jones is the way for Democrats to address the challenges facing the party and the nation, not creating litmus tests about impeachment that hurt the great cause that Steyer, progressives and all Democrats champion for the 2018 midterms.
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Now those moderates are taking a victory lap, arguing that Lipinski's win shows clearly that the Democrats can be an ideologically diverse party — unbound to litmus tests even on issues as contentious as abortion rights — and still be successful at the polls.
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Sanders's team has identified a series of progressive policy litmus tests around housing, climate, and education policy to cast Sanders as the true candidate for the left and convince voters, including 217 supporters who might have started to consider Warren as another option.
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One way that parties and presidents can signal their intentions on future nominees is the use of policy litmus tests — that is, a promise to appoint justices who will decide cases on a given policy in the direction favored by the party.
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This is important because lower court nominees today can become Supreme Court nominees tomorrow, which means Trump's litmus tests for his judges threaten key components of the priceless, though fragile body of law that Justice Kennedy has carefully built over the past three decades.
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Instead of looking at litmus tests as the root cause sowing the seeds of American political discord, maybe the people bashing them in the name of compromise are just avoiding taking the hard, principled positions we need from our political leaders in this era.
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Several liberal activists and strategists also are dismissive of the suggestion that Medicare for all or the Green New Deal have become litmus tests for Democrats, arguing that they did not expect candidates to unite behind a single piece of legislation or policy prescription.
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It's visible in the forays made by Missouri's new Republican senator, Josh Hawley, who has incited small uproars by imposing sharper abortion and religious-liberty litmus tests than usual on the Trump administration's judicial nominees, and by taking an explicitly censorious stance toward Silicon Valley.
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" Who can run furthest to the left: Via The Hill's Max Greenwood and Mike Lillis, "Democratic presidential hopefuls, under fierce pressure from liberal activists and base voters, are racing to embrace a series of progressive policy proposals that are quickly emerging as litmus tests ahead of 2020.
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While she did not challenge any other Democratic candidates by name, the tax disclosure is a study in how underdog candidates may seek to break out from the pack by passing high-profile procedural or ideological litmus tests that more cautious candidates may struggle to clear.
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It is just the sort of fight Mr. Biden has been spoiling for: a head-to-head contest with the incumbent on an issue that elevates Mr. Biden into a statesmanlike role, well above the Democratic primary fray and all the sniping candidates and liberal litmus tests therein.
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Over the last generation, our nation's elite cultural institutions have become more themselves, which is to say that they have passed from being mostly liberal to being monolithically so, with strong internal forces — like Berkeley's litmus tests — pulling them leftward and no countervailing power remaining on the right.
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"As the nominee of a President who has viciously attacked the independence of the judiciary and declared multiple litmus tests for justices, Judge Gorsuch has a special responsibility to reassure the American people that he will be an open-minded and independent jurist," Blumenthal said in a statement earlier.
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The success of the strategy — pushing an issue that had mostly thrived on the fringe into the 2020 conversation — illustrates how activists are leveraging the early stages of the Democratic primary, creating pseudo-litmus tests for candidates eager to respond to the energy that is driving more extreme policy proposals.
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On this week's Popcast, Mr. Caramanica speaks with Mr. DeRogatis about his coverage of Mr. Kelly's legal troubles, from the earliest rumors to allegations as recent as this year, as well as the usefulness of holding Mr. Kelly's enablers to account, and the validity of moral litmus tests for art.
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"When the 20173st Amendment was passed, it gave states the right to regulate commerce in alcohol if regulation met any of the three litmus tests — one, to raise revenue; two, to promote orderly distribution; and three, to promote the public health," Michael Moore, an economist and longtime alcohol researcher, told Vox.
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"The Netanyahu government's Entry Law, which is a travel ban that uses blacklists and litmus tests to bar visitors from entering Israel based on their beliefs, flies in the face of the democratic principles enshrined in Israel's declaration of independence," said Daniel Sokatch, the CEO of the New Israel Fund.
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Warren's comments, which first came at a New Year's Eve news conference after she announced her 2020 exploratory committee and were followed up in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday, made clear one of the first litmus tests of the 2020 Democratic primary and were quickly echoed by a progressive organization backing Warren.
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While Democratic operatives reject the idea that the issue will be a litmus test in the presidential contest -- the party, says a Democratic National Committee official, doesn't have litmus tests -- Democratic shifts on the issue have put pressure on every candidate to either catch up to the electorate or risk falling behind.
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"This is different than judicial selection in past years," Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel and the chief architect of the administration's selection process, explained in remarks last month to the Conservative Political Action Conference, noting that previous presidents had used "single-issue litmus tests" as part of their criteria.
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The new litmus tests of the primary debate—whether or not candidates profess adulation for Medicare for All or the Green New Deal; whether they would decriminalise illegal immigration; and whether they would provide health insurance to those undocumented immigrants—have rapidly become benchmarks for defining the differences between moderate and progressive.
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And speaking of presidents who wouldn't pass today's political litmus tests, how many contemporary politicians would dare echo Eisenhower's lament that "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed"?
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In the view of the Stop Trump crowd (which includes a large swath of his own Republican Party), his entire governing plan is that he doesn't have one, and his campaign platform is a 5-by-7 index card of insults and promises of border walls and religious litmus tests for anyone wanting to come to Trumpmerica.
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After a 2018 midterm election that energized the left, perhaps the most consequential political question facing the Democratic Party is whether liberals will insist on imposing policy litmus tests on 2020 presidential hopefuls, or whether voters will rally behind the candidate most capable of defeating the president even if that Democrat is imperfect on some issues.
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"If we're not going to thoroughly discuss what it means to have a president with this ongoing investigation happening, who is now going to interview Supreme Court justices, and potentially continue with his tradition of doing litmus tests, loyalty tests, for that person, we could be participating in a process that could undermine that criminal investigation," Booker said. Sen.
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But the relative lack of strict ideological litmus tests enforced by party members and activists both inside and outside Congress allows Democratic leaders greater freedom of movement to satisfy, even if incompletely, the demands of their party's most attentive supporters, preventing Democrats from succumbing to the same series of internal revolts and governing crises that have repeatedly befallen the GOP.
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It's a chance to reset the table of sexual politics — not by infantilizing women or declaring a war on flirting or administering litmus tests, but by continuing a decades-long push for true equality in the bedroom, for a world in which women are not intimidated or coerced into sex but are also not stuffed into the role of gatekeepers.
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Yes, Trump has adopted conservative positions on various issues, but he's done so in a transparently cynical fashion, constantly signaling that he doesn't really believe in or understand the stance that he's taking, constantly suggesting a willingness to bargain any principle away ... Perhaps Trumpism can be understood as a coup by the G.O.P.'s ideologically flexible minority against the conservative movement's litmus tests; indeed to some extent that's clearly what's been happening.
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Just as some advocacy groups are looking to make certain policies litmus tests for a candidate's progressive credentials, such as "Medicare for all" and the Green New Deal, others are monitoring how quickly and forcefully each responds to Mr. Trump's most inflammatory moments — whether he's using images from the nation's darkest days to attack Ms. Omar or suggesting that authorities should release detained migrants in Democratic cities, as he also did in recent days.
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Monday Biden to rack up Buttigieg, Klobuchar, O'Rourke endorsements on same nightDoubts over viability of Trump administration's Taliban deal emerge within hours of signing Tuesday Here's who won on Super TuesdayLed by notorious germaphobe, West Wing braces for coronavirusWhite House questionnaire adds new litmus tests for prospective hires Wednesday Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Chuck Schumer for comments about Kavanaugh and GorsuchWhite House seeks options to blunt economic fallout from coronavirus Thursday DHS denies 241 people entry at US ports and airports over coronavirusPence admits 'we don't have enough tests' as delay in coronavirus testing persists Friday Trump muddles coronavirus message as response team struggles to match 'wishful thinking'Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it enforce 'Remain in Mexico' asylum policy And that was the week in 11 headlines.
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