Ok, let's talk about conservative Democrats

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4. I thought the goal was to primary people like Manchin and Heidikamp

Why has that suddenly changed? All because Bernie decided to embrace a conservative like Mello?

My, how the arguments do change on a dime.


The red state Democrats don't weaken the message on their own. Most have a very low profile. It's when they are held up as "progessives" and the "future of the party" that rhetoric of progressivism and economic justice is exposed as empty. It is when those who claim to be on the left go out of their way to justify right-wing positions and insist they should control the party that the national message is not just compromised but rendered morally bankrupt.

It's also electoral suicide because the fact is women are the majority of voters in the Democratic Party, and the majority of the country, including Republicans, supports a woman's right to choose.