When did we stop being the big tent party?

[markpkessinger]

74. I am a gay man, and would love to see Buttigieg as the VP pick. BUT . . .

. . . I am also a realist when it comes to the need to defeat Donald Trump, and I recognize that homophobia continues to be a thing among the electorate. I worry that having a gay man on the same ticket with a mixed race woman might be a tad too much diversity for some voters -- particularly some independent/unaffiliated voters, from whom we must draw heavily if we are to win.

It isn't a matter of retreating from being a "big tent" party, but a matter of cold, hard political calculus.