"The political old guard had been toppled."

fortunately with little success, has something to do with it. That's past her now and let's hope she represents her district well.

Sure go with that

to defeat Sharice David? Are you down with that?

criticize AOC for doing what she wants to do or what is her right to do. I learned long ago you can carry grudges or you can move on, I don't waste my time on that.

working against other Dems in other states instead of against repugs—not smart.

Again, it's past her now and I hope she does well representing her district.

How exactly ought we choose who runs on our ballot line?

from the repugs—using money, resources and efforts to get Democrats in office so we would have at least one branch of government to blunt trump.

In the just recently passed election the blue wave was successful, thank God.

The Justice Democrats and Our Revolution worked to defeat other Dems when the real fight, IMO, should've been working to defeat the trump/white supremacy/fascist cabal.

Not that complicated. I don't know why it wasn't grasped. We might have had an even bigger blue wave if they had used their resources to work against repugs in the most important election in decades for our democracy. If the repugs had won the House trump and the repugs would be voting in fascism measures right now

on the Democratic ballot. Do we have primaries or not?

No thanks. I prefer democracy.

the threat posed by the trump/white supremacy/fascist cabal?

Incumbents, proven winners, had the best chance to win against repugs. So do the math, even if a Justice Dem or an Our Revolution candidate beat an incumbent Dem and then won the general election, that still wouldn't have gotten us closer to winning the majority in the House as that would just replace one Democrat for another without gaining a seat. However, if resources, money and effort was arrayed against an incumbent repug successfully, then we gain a seat in the House.

2018 was critical against the trump/white supremacy/fascist cabal. It was all about the bigger picture and the math, and the survival of our democracy, which seems important to you.

Sometimes the bigger picture of insuring we gained the House majority is more important than than one Dem running to unseat another. If the repugs had won the House they'd be ramming through fascist policies right now, Mueller would be out and we couldn't stop them.

As I believe in representative democracy. Primaries are how we decide who runs on our ballot slots. There is nothing wrong, and in fact everything right with robust primary campaigns.

candidates were less than successful.