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[Steven Maurer]

63. Although I agree these are good questions...

Never forget that Senator Sanders did come around and endorse Hillary Clinton in the general election. So at least for him, that pragmatic streak does run both ways - at least when Democrats are up against Republicans. He himself isn't insisting on 110% ideological purity.

I do agree that Senator Sanders does, in the primary, push the idea that his views are the only moral ones, and that excessive bashing of Democrats on his campaign's part can harm the winner in the fall. I am especially disappointed in the whole DNC conspiracy theory that somehow a handful of snarky emails sent in private by DNC staffers fed up with attacks on them, were why he didn't resonate with the 3 million Democratic primary voters he lost by.

But at the end of the day, it's really not him, or even the significant majority of Sanders supporters who are the problem, but rather the "Jackpine Radical" Green-Teabagger types, who seem to be angrier at Democrats than they are Republicans. But Sanders should be lauded for his tent-broadening, not bashed, I feel. Not attacked.