Shaun KingVerified account

We have Trump because Bernie refused to back Hillary, he sat at the convention pouting with his arms crossed, bad optics. He could have worked with her to defeat Trump but he could not bring himself to do the right thing.

He endorsed her as soon as he lost. What was he supposed to do, Gush over the lady who worked with the dnc to screw him?

Politics is local. If Dems want a progressive purity test they will continue to lose. What works in the NY City area will not work in West Virginia. And last time I heard @SenSanders quit the @TheDemocrats quite a while ago. Yeah he caucuses with them but he did quit the party.

“What works in the NY City area will not work in West Virginia.” This is a defeatist attitude. We know people in these states and communities are voting against their best interests. We know they are being duped. We need to find some way to reach them, not write them off.

I favor a progressive takeover of the Democratic Party, starting at the local precinct level. That's not "defeatist". That's lasting and practical. Get involved.

The current DNC is too enmeshed in Wall Street. When a D rep says he wants to be rich so don’t attack the 1%, he is dismissing income inequality, which should be a huge D message. What is the D message? Because the only ones I hear with any passion are from the progressives.

I'm not in disagreement. I favor involvement at the precinct for progressives to change the party.

I agree with you, but I also think we have far reaching channels to hit the national level simultaneously. Hillary’s platform evolved when Bernie became a formidable opponent. If the voices are heard, if they feel threatened, they will need to embrace the progressive platform.

Does anyone really think we can go from Trumpism to democratic socialism in one election cycle? Democratic Party isn’t going to win any republicans over by saying “you are terrible. Let’s be socialists!” - I love the idea of Democratic socialism. But it’s too early.

We need moderate or even centrist Dems in power to bridge the gap. Show/convince conservatives and maybe even some Trumpublicans that we have it right, that the Democratic formula is the winning one. Once they’ve bought in, then let’s push the democratic socialism.

Dems just lost with a Centrist or Republican-Lite... How about a new strategy like exciting your own base and not trying to court voters from a different party

Hillary was a Republican-lite? Idk about that. Either way, her failure was of her own doing. I don’t want someone to widen the divide. We can get a socialist in, doesn’t matter if the other side pushes against every thing they do. That’s why we need a leader to unite the country

ProTPP, Pro Fracking, ProWar, beholden to Wall Street...sounds about Republican-Lite. Bernie's the most popular politician in America, it's the establishment that doesn't like him.

Bernie’s identity is loved. I don’t know if that will hold true if he gets picked apart in a general election. And again, if Congress fights him every step of the way, there’s little progress to be made. Just like they did to Obama. Maybe midterm results will change my mind

That's another Neo-Liberal talking point, he's been in the limelight for 3 years now, he's a fierce debater in Congress, I don't see how a General Election would change anything. He's clear and straight to the point which is why he's popular