After Bitter Tuesday, Progressives Ask Democratic Party What It Stands For

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6. Members of the Democratic Party are voting

for the nominee they want. That is democracy in action by people who care enough to go vote their principles.

The people of Maryland paid Van Hollen the compliment of liking and respecting him for what he has done for them so far. He's a good man who will be a good Democratic Senator. Their choice is not a failure of principle.

Note that complete contempt for the rights and opinions of those who disagree with one's own choice is a manifestation of lack of principle, and gratuitous insults and lies about the ideology of other progressives are manifestations of failure of principle.

People behaving like this have been giving their particular illiberal, anti-Democrat brand of progressivism a bad name for a very long time now, and their behavior certainly is a factor in Sanders' defeat -- the only question is how much.