Yes, it will be necessary to unify behind one candidate to beat Trump...but it's not just that...

[Ken Burch]

36. Not sure the country actually has moved further right.

Even with vote suppression, Trump's vote share was essentially identical to Romney's.

And the current polls, even without the party presenting a particularly cohesive message, have us twenty points up on the GOP for the mid-term congressional voting.

I'll vote for whoever we nominate, but we DON'T need to ever again nominate anyone who makes "I'm not one of those damned liberals" an organizing principle of the campaign. And the 2000 and 2016 results prove for the rest of eternity that running a "you HAVE to vote for us" campaign can never be effective in turning nonvoters into Dem voters OR in stopping people from voting for people like Stein.

I'd argue the country is moving towards us, that we are winning the post election argument, and that we need to speak out for progressive change with strength and without apology.