What Centrist Democrats Really Mean By ‘Unity’.
It doesn’t seem to apply to everyone in the party.
In the years leading up to and following the 2016 election, there has been a noticeable division between the old guard in the Democratic Party, and the new blood that found it’s voice after Bernie Sanders’ first people driven presidential campaign. With each passing year it seems as though this ideological divide between the moderates and leftists only grows more and more entrenched and difficult to ignore.
In moments when there is no choice but to address this division, it’s been as interesting as it is infuriating to see how Democratic leadership respond.
After the 2016 election, democratic staffers and television pundits were coming up with a wide array of palatable reasons for the stunning loss in search of one that stuck. Predictably, many settled on Bernie Sanders. In spite of the fact that he had campaigned for Hillary Clinton relentlessly, even multiple times a day and to the point where he was accused of selling out, he was still accused of fracturing the base of the Democratic Party.
From the moment that his second campaign for the Presidency began, these staffers and pundits have urged Bernie and his base to remember to concede when the time comes, and unify behind whomever should become the…
