Good god she is brilliant: "I'm not running "from the left." I'm running from the bottom."

[empedocles]

4. 'Excellent' perhaps when she gets past some of her own actions

like 'ABOLISH ICE!'. This hurts her cause big time, as well as herself.

In historical retrospect, LBJ's Medicare, Medicaid, civil rights, Great Society achievements, are monumental. No one else, then or since then could ever pass such legislation - and he did it despite powerful, backwards, outright racist/sexist Southern Committee Chairmen.

A serious threat to LBJ's ultimate legislative successes came from what he publicly called liberal 'redhots'. Privately, he forcefully articulated how dangerous these 'righteous' people were to getting anything passed, - and how helpful the 'redhots' were to the Republican cause, [and ultimately to the longterm cause of 'conservative' Republicans].

I do love the ' not running from the left, I'm running from the bottom' quote.