


Sherrod Brown
Democrats Won't Back True Progressive

If Ohio's senior senator were named Sharon Brown instead of Sherrod Brown, progressives would have a plausible political pin-up and a serious alternative to the tawdry boredom of Hillary Clinton's joyless plod toward her party's presidential nomination. Drop one of Brown's consonants and change another, and a vowel, and we might be spared the infatuation of what Howard Dean called "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Sherrod Brown won't be considered because the Democratic Party's activist core is incurably devoted to identity politics — the proposition that people are whatever their gender is (or their...