DEMOCRATIC TOLERANCE – AT 1:40 P.M. ET:   Well, there isn't much of it.  But there is a new, intriguing kind of Democratic Party tolerance – tolerance of the bashing of one Nancy Pelosi.  Even Nancy is going along.  She just celebrated the victory of someone who said he wanted her replaced.  Amazing.  From the Los Angeles Times: 

The morning after Democrat Conor Lamb's electoral upset in a Pennsylvania House district that backed Donald Trump by 20 points, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi shrugged off questions about whether she was worried that the candidate had campaigned on a pledge to replace her.

"We won," said the ever-confident Pelosi. "I just wanted him to win."

Pelosi has been the reluctant star of GOP attack ads for years, typically cast as a stereotypical San Francisco liberal who wants to raise taxes and collect all the guns.

And in an election year where there is a chance she could once again lead the Democratic caucus to the majority and become House speaker, expect Republicans to flood the airwaves with ads connecting candidates to the long-serving leader.

But as Lamb's campaign showed, the Democratic Party appears to have an unconventional new strategy for dealing with anti-Pelosi campaign ads in 2018: Disavow her.

Rather than defend Pelosi or try to change the subject, Democratic candidates are being given leeway — at least unofficially — to buck her if that's what's needed to win a seat in a conservative-leaning district — or even in a moderate one, since voters seem to be asking for broad change.

It's a bold strategy that may short-circuit GOP efforts to use her as their boogeyman. But it could also leave Pelosi — who increasingly has had to fight back efforts to push her aside as leader — without the votes she'll need to get the gavel again.

In the final weeks of the Pennsylvania race, Lamb announced he wouldn't support Pelosi. "I think we need new leadership on both sides," Lamb told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

COMMENT:  The problem of course is that if Pelosi is pushed aside, the Dems will probably choose someone even more to the left.  Where will that leave these so-called "moderates"?  If experience is any guide, they'd be ordered to go along, or forced to the margins of the party.

March 22, 2018