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

[Ken Burch]

57. I'm not talking about the primary at all, or about HRC...I campaigned for HRC in the fall.

I worked as hard as I could to get people to unify for HRC in the fall.

Yes, moderate GOP types are retiring...but that's because moderate GOP voters don't exist anymore.

The RIGHT is moving further right, but is losing support massively in the polls for doing so.

There is no potential electability for a Dem presidential candidate who makes a big show of not being liberal.

We can win by winning the argument...we don't need to reduce ourselves to trying to win by default, and then accepting the GOP narrative that it didn't count that we won and we have no right to set the agenda.

I respect you, but I have to say that your post there is the kind of thing that causes fear...it sounds-I know this isn't your intent but it sounds as htough it's a set up for an argument that we have no choice but to lower ourselves to running again on something like the '92 or '96 platforms-which were the platforms that ended up turning our party, even though it held the White House,, into kind of a dead zone in the Nineties. It was a different era, but there can't be anything in that era for the party ever to emulate again. We need to move totally beyond that.