"There’s been quite a lot of chatter about progressives becoming to the Democrats what the Tea Party was to the Republicans at the beginning of the last decade."

No there hasn't. That is your interpretation of disparate events. You are wrong about the Tea Party. That movement, for all its disingenuousness, led to disproportionate government that has changed America forever. Yet progressives have never behaved like the teabaggers, and never would.

You write this as if you are imparting wisdom based on fact, but it is really nothing more than a screed that could have been written by Pelosi herself. It is telling that you apply the same kind of media-bashing that tRump himself employs. This article is myopic and naive, and provides zero insight..