Reporter’s Notebook: A Democratic majority could expose the limits of the progressive agenda

"You made me promises.

Promises.

Knowing I'd believe.

Promises.

Promises.

I knew you'd never keep." — Promises, Promises by Naked Eyes "I am a supporter of Medicare-for-all," declared Minnesota’s Democratic nominee for Senate, Lt.

Gov.

Peggy Flanagan, D.

"I'm going to get there with my friend Sen.

Bernie Sanders , I-Vt.

And we are going to power map the s--t out of the U.S.

Senate and figure out how to build power for the things that we know that we deserve and the things that we need." Hard-left progressive House and Senate candidates like Flanagan are pitching Medicare-for-all.

The abolition of ICE.

The Green New Deal .