The Democratic Platform fight is over.

[Eric J in MN]

Early this morning, before Bernie Sanders made his big speech endorsing Hillary Clinton today in New Hampshire, Sanders’s top policy adviser, Warren Gunnels, sent an email to a few dozen fellow Sanders supporters.

“The Senator made the difficult decision not to file minority reports,” Gunnels wrote in the email, which was sent to all of Sanders’s representatives on the Democratic convention Platform Committee and forwarded to this blog. “You should be receiving an e-mail soon from the Senator about the next steps in the political revolution.”

This dry language actually amounts to a very significant declaration: What it means is that the Sanders campaign will not further contest the makeup of the Democratic platform at the convention, even though Sanders did not get all the changes to the platform he had hoped for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/07/12/bernie-sanders-just-endorsed-clinton-heres-how-hell-keep-his-movement-alive/

I would have preferred for there to be votes at the convention on stopping the TPP and banning fracking. There won't be.

[NurseJackie]

4. Well ... give it some time.

[NurseJackie]

3. I'm glad we can put that behind us now. It will probably all be forgotten by election day.

[Red Mountain]

5. And the day after....

there will be those who will work to ensure the Clinton administration(2) doesn't slip back to the right on the issues.

[BobbyDrake]

6. I would venture to guess that such an action was a condition of receiving a prime speaking spot. nt

[Eric J in MN]

7. My guess is that the Clinton campaign said that

...if the Sanders campaign tries to change the platform, then they will also, and the Sanders campaign decided it was better to leave it.

[Hortensis]

8. Yes, the convention will be unified on Democratic goals.

That is a fantastic achievement for us. We will do battle for the future of America as a unified front.

But Sanders will still be fighting intraparty for nominating rules changes, including a top goal of getting rid of superdelegates, but presumably also throwing our primaries open to the entire American electorate, etc. The rules committee meets just before the convention. What comes out of that will determine what Sanders takes to the convention floor.

[Eric J in MN]

9. Bernie Sanders' position on Super Delegates is that they should have to vote as their states did. NT

NT

[Orsino]

10. Well, the fight over what to agree to in non-binding fashion is over.

The real fights are going to be over how to implement that platform, and how to do better than what it says.

[Vote2016]

11. I'd also have liked a TPP floor vote. Disappointed.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Since every Congressional Democrat is a Super Delegate

...it would have been nice to get them on the record about TPP before Obama decides whether to submit it to the Republican-controlled Congress.

[NorthCarolina]

13. TPP will happen. The American people don't want it, but all the people who actually count do.

It may undergo a name change though so the claim can be made that it is a completely different trade agreement or some other such nonsense.

[Vote2016]

14. It is saddening that there is no pathway to vindicate the clear will of the majority of the people.

[NorthCarolina]

15. The will of the people carries no weight anymore.

Bernie Sanders did America a HUGE favor by putting forth ideas and values that Democrats abandoned long ago to win favor of wealthy and corporate mega-donors. In doing so he has defused the terms "Liberal" and "Socialism", which can no longer be used by either party to incite fear in the voters minds just by someone uttering the words.

Recall Claire McCaskill and her proclamation against Bernie on Hardball..."He's a socialist for chrissakes"... "a SOCIALIST" (to her credit she didn't follow that with "Boo" though...but it was implied). Her effort, and the effort of the other comfortable class legislators and their media mouthpieces to issue the same dire warning went nowhere, and in spite of all the establishment forces against him, Bernie amassed a contingent of over 19 million faithful followers.

[Vote2016]

16. Sad but true. I think the parties are realigning. I think the Republican party is going populist and

we're morphing into something that is ideological akin to the British conservative party (economicly protrade and socially moderate by EU standards but progressive by US standards and more elite than populist).