First, the Democratic Party leadership is deliberately cultivating military-intelligence candidates and creating opportunities for them to run in Democratic-leaning congressional districts where they are likely to be elected. These figures suggest that the influx of Pentagon and CIA operatives into Congress, by means of the Democratic Party, is not an accidental phenomenon, but the outcome of a definite policy, which has two components. In 2022, the total number of such candidates stands at 34: in addition to 11 incumbents, there are 23 more candidates drawn from the CIA, Pentagon and State Department. There were 35 such candidates in 2020, including the 11 incumbents, and 12 won, a slight increase despite the election being a poor one for the Democrats. There were 30 such candidates nominated by the Democrats in 2018, 11 of whom won. The influx of military-intelligence operatives into the ranks of the Democratic Party in Congress is now an ongoing political trend. This year, the size of the “caucus” could nearly double, even in an election in which the Democratic Party as a whole may well lose ground. Their numbers increased by one in 2020, as one of the 11 lost his bid for reelection, but two new military-intelligence Democrats were elected.
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This phenomenon, which the WSWS first analyzed and exposed in 2018 in our much-read series “ The CIA Democrats,” is becoming an increasingly important factor in American official politics.Įleven military-intelligence candidates were elected in 2018 as part of the Democratic takeover of control in the House of Representatives. Some two dozen Democratic candidates for Congress, running as challengers to Republican incumbents or as would-be successors to retiring Democratic incumbents, are drawn from the military-intelligence apparatus. This article was published as a two-part series on October 6-7
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