Breaking Up with Berners: No, I Don’t Share Your Values
Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read
Like most moderate Democrats over the past two years, I have been on the receiving end of what I can only describe as lightly-veiled political threats from the “Sanders wing” of the party. “You need us,” the line usually goes, “Nominate our kind of progressive or be consigned to Trumpism forever.” It is a threat that appears to have been taken seriously by party leadership and many in the rank and file. It is a statement that I also , more or less begrudgingly, have taken as fact.

