Clinton still 'disappointed' Sanders held off on endorsing her in 2016

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230. Yes. That Democrats have instead always fought progressivism

is something Sanders has been selling for decades. Even that idea, central to his identity and positioning, is far, far from new with him, though.

It's a lot older even than today's liberal-dominated Democratic Party. We have a liberal democracy, and liberals under any party label are the people who've not only made progressivism integral to our form of government, but lead every progressive advance this nation has ever had. Yet Sanders'-like leaders arise in every generation who claim to be more progressive than progressive, more New-Dealer than the New Dealers, even more Democratic than Democrats, but whose inner demons perversely require them to deny and oppose.

Thomas Jefferson said he felt the most sensible response to those of the revolutionary period was to refuse to talk with them. Since wired-in opposition never allowed the exchange of worthwhile ideas with people who believed only they could be the true revolutionaries.

Well, I've brought myself to the point of at least remembering to be glad history turned out as it should that time.