What if Bernie wins?

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79. Again, there is no such thing as the Democratic wing of the party...and anyone can be wrong...the

comment was divisive and ill advised. As for 1990...in 92 when no prominent Democrat wanted to run...Bill Clinton saved us from four more years of GOP rule and got two court picks...and it took help from Perot too. Clinton never had majority not in 92 or in 96. We would not have won in the 90's with a candidate of the left as our presidential nominee...in fact we had been trounced multiple times in the 70's and 80's. Wellstone's words carry no weight with me...I prefer to look to the future. We have capitalism in this country and it needs regulation not destruction.

We are in a similar situation as in the 90's...a country dragged to the right by a Trump win...and only a perceived moderate as our nominee can beat Trump and save this country and the progressive movement. You speak of a time 20 years ago...different world. I also ask this...what were Wellstone's accomplishments? I mean no disrespect he was on our side but...I fail to understand why his words should mean more than say Biden's words. Biden has many accomplishments.

'Yet 10 years after he took his Senate seat, Wellstone has disappeared from the national consciousness. He never emerged as the left’s national spokesman for reforms in health care, campaign finance, or anything else. Apart from his abortive 1998 exploration of a 2000 presidential run—highlighted by a little-noted reenactment of Bobby Kennedy’s 1967 “poverty tour”—he has kept a generally low public profile.'

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/01/seduction-paul-wellstone/