My conversation with my DNC operative in Florida

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39. Bless Ol' Bernie And His Followers

But they're living in some blue-tinged bubble where the real world doesn't peep in. Socialism, alas, is still a scare word across middle America, and those suburban Moms and other factions hard-working Democratic activists brought into the fold to vote Team Donkey will balk at voting for Bernie.

The puppies and unicorns crowd fails to realize that we need more than just Sanders followers to take the White House, and even more voters than "Vote Blue No Matter Who" Democrats. This is not a prediction based on Sandalista "party elites" bunkum. It's a sober acknowledgement of unpleasant facts. The unpleasant fact is that Bernie is perceived as being too radical for most of the country. The 2016 election should have been instructive; those of us who saw what happened to Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern already know.

The puppies and unicorns crowd needs to sit down and soberly reflect on whether the Democratic Party has enough voters to win elections on their own even without the rest of the voters out there. They don't. We need Democrats and others if we want to see a Democrat in the White House as President of the USA on January 22nd, 2021. Great futile gestures avail us nothing.