Does everyone agree that this is the real split in the Dem party? And at DU?

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103. Yes. I think people are misinterpreting that quote. (Some intentionally)

In this case, I believe the author used "status quo" to describe the *methodology of changing* the ideological landscape, not the landscape itself. He is not saying Clinton supporters thought everthing was great and no change was needed, but that they were more tolerant of the current process of bringing about change.

"Clinton supporters were fundamentally happy with the United States of America, the American political system, and the trajectory for people like themselves within it." - i.e., with the way the current ideological battle is waged, the stability of slow change, and the politics of compromise. It's not saying they were happy with current policies, but with the approach being used to effect change.

"Sanders supporters, by contrast, were not, and Clinton’s various leftward feints on policy could not address that gap." i.e., not happy with the tactics, wanting a more agrresive ideological stance and an attempt to make the case that slow change is not working, thus her "feints" to the left were not enough "red meat" to impress that wing, who saw them as an affect worn primarily to win them over, not as something she would go to the table over.