Trump Rages, Rosenstein, Cohen's Tapes, The Midterms: With Guest Molly Jong-Fast

We are a large country with diverse ideas. For Democrats to move more to the left as a party is to embrace the idea of forcing more radical policies onto those citizens who disagree, not to work at compromise or solutions that work for all citizens. Let’s take note of what has happened to the Republican party since the birth of the Tea Party. It has split the party to the point of destroying it and has led to radical politics on the right. Why would we Democrats want to repeat their mistakes?

If the Democrats go too far to the left, they may blow it. If they can’t win in 2018, they are already in trouble for 2020. If they lose 2020, Trump may have four Supreme Court justices during his presidency, making the court 7–2 for the next couple decades or so, not to mention an extension of the carnage he has already unleashed.

Notice how organized labor?—?the real bastion of the left?—?is backing the “mainstream” or “centrist” Democrats. In the topsy-turvy world we live in, the “centrists” are the real left, and “the left” are right-wing identitarians. They’re the nonwhite version of the white nationalists they profess to hate so much. I will give Sanders credit, he is for real, but throwing his lot in with these groups will dilute whatever appeal his message might have by tying it to identity politics and open borders. The working-classes will never back those positions.