Oh, damn. She went there!

[Hortensis]

188. How much of THAT is real v fake, though? The Russians,

Repubs, sensationalizing media, and the Sanders campaign itself, did a fine job of selling the story, profitable to all of them, that this was a large enough bloc to possibly win the primary and even take over the party. And they did it primarily through pushing or reporting fake messages of a pervasive party and candidate corruption and betrayal that don't exist.

Sanders' bloc isn't and never came close to being the force it was portrayed as, though of course many didn't understand that and some still don't. That's understandable because their voices and messages were and still are amplified well beyond their numbers.

For just a little reality check, remember that 90% of Sanders' primary voters moved smoothly to their second choice they were very satisfied with, and some of the remaining support eventually also did (though of course not with great satisfaction). THAT message is huge and real, no matter how much the media chooses to pretend otherwise.

There is no big schism in the party as a whole. Thanks to the huge threats from the right, we are both more cohesive and largely diverse than we have been in many decades.

There are division and dissension between the party's most discontented faction (already there but augmented by by Russian and right wing agitprop) and the rest of its factions who don't agree with them. But to most Democrats it's just something they run across in the news now and then, those who are paying attention at all.

Come November 6, just as in 2016, the vast majority of Democrats who turn out will vote Democrat, and almost all of those will feel very good about it.