2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wasserman Schultz poised to beat Sanders-backed challenger [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)We won the argument on the issues and the platform is a lot better than it would have been if HRC had been coronated.
Those victories on platform language are the reason the Green vote is as inconsequentally low as it is. You should therefore be grateful that the Sanders campaign happened.
It's not about "purity", it's about defending principle and this party doesn't need to water things down to win. None of us have made a big deal about nothing on the issues.
In fact, if we HAD put the specific "no TPP" language in the platform, we'd probably be twenty points up by now because we'd be breaking even among working-class whites(and doing so without betraying any of the issues you prioritize and that I join you in supporting).
It's only the centrist planks on economics that keep Drumpf within striking difference.