Russian trolls' goal: Make internet sites unusable by flooding with unnecessary debate and spam

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Sanders pushed back against the criticism. "The truth is that in some conservative states there will be candidates that are popular candidates who may not agree with me on every issue. I understand it. That's what politics is about," Sanders told NPR.

"If we are going to protect a woman's right to choose, at the end of the day we're going to need Democratic control over the House and the Senate, and state governments all over this nation," he said. "And we have got to appreciate where people come from, and do our best to fight for the pro-choice agenda. But I think you just can't exclude people who disagree with us on one issue."

But that call for pragmatism doesn't mesh with the main message Sanders has been delivering this week: a call for a more aggressive and progressive Democratic party. In the same interview, he blamed Republican gains at the state and federal level on "the failure of the Democratic Party to have a progressive agenda, to bring people into this party, to mobilize people."

(Emphases mine.)

We are being asked to redefine the word "progressive" as standing up for the economic empowerment of the working class while accepting the assumed anti-woman views of that class. It's disturbing that rejecting such a repositioning of the Democratic Party is considered trolling.