It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection.

[DanTex]

179. Sure, I think Manchin should have opposed Sessions and Gorsuch.

Of course, it wouldn't have made the slightest bit of difference. What would have made a difference is winning last November.

And you say that Jill Stein has no power, but what do you think would have happened if last year she and the rest of the far left went around forcefully campaigning for Hillary, making the case to disgruntled lefties that national elections are too important to waste votes on write-ins or third parties. Nobody can say for sure, but I'm guessing that it could easily have delivered the tiny number of votes that Hillary needed in those states.

I have no problem with people who are ideologically on the left in the Democratic Party. You will never hear me say that any elected Dem should be primaried for being too far left. And I would support a turn to the left nationwide if I actually thought it would win us more votes. But I don't. We're not going to get a progressive Dem senator elected in West Virginia.

Sure, in progressive districts and states, nominate progressives. But reality is, in order to become a majority party again, we are going to need some people like Joe Manchin.