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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Lightfoot has appeared to be somewhat down the middle, as far as Democrats go. I wouldn't call her non-progressive though, I'd call her practical.
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I think nowadays when people say "progressive" it's often in the context of internal Democratic Party politics (see e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congre...ressive_Caucus ). In this context, Lightfoot is certainly not a "progressive
(nor was Preckwinkle or Emmanuel). Chuy Garcia is a "progressive", but he decisively lost to Rahm in 2015 (though I voted for him, even though I disagreed with his views on transit).
Of course the term is overloaded and not everyone means this.