"The current model and strategy of the Sanders wing of the Democratic party is an absolute failure."

[Jim Lane]

36. There are the outs and there are the establishment types.

You complain that "only one side is attacking the whole party for the most part."

Well, only one side has control of all the levers of party machinery for the most part.

Bill Clinton and the DLC were attacking the whole party when they said the party had moved too far to the left, a Third Way was needed, etc. That's because, back then, they were the outs.

To say that no one should "attack the whole party" means, in practice, that it's OK (well, sort of OK) for people to endorse specific candidates, but no one should ever go beyond that by calling for improvement in the structure and overall direction of the party. That stricture, of course, means that the people who are not currently controlling the party should just STFU.

The people who are actually attacking the Democratic Party are the ones -- a tiny minority of Sanders supporters -- who are trying to start a new party of the left. Go on, keep up this self-righteousness about how one faction in the Democratic Party is pure and true and noble but the other is engaged in vicious infighting that only helps Trump. Keep singing that song and more and more people will decide that the Cornel West types are right, that there's no home for our side in the Democratic Party, and that a new party is the only answer. The more of them who follow that path, the more likely it is that Republicans will increase their hold on government.

And if smears of Bernie like the ones in Hillary's book reach the point where he's finally had enough and he throws in his lot with the organizers of a new party, then no Democrat will have the ghost of a chance of winning the White House in 2020.