I think a key to understanding the dynamic in the primaries is that the Democratic Party is absolutely unified around the need to defeat Trump, it is really the only issue in this election. But there is a deep and bitter schism about what tactics to adopt to achieve the outcome
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and, as a corollary, the winning faction, should it ultimately lose, will be convinced that it wasn't suicide but murder
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This has basically happened with the Labour Party in the UK post Brexit/General Election.
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But didn't they try the exact same tactics last time, with Clinton?
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Bernie’s faction believes that even if the other faction wins, it creates the conditions for something worse than Trump in the future. Literally just try talking to some of ushttps://twitter.com/nikhil_palsingh/status/1235026910138077185 …
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No, I think Trump getting elected would be worse, (and also made more likely by running Biden). But Biden will be terrible.
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