re: The Civil War on the Left may turn into a Balkanization

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of course the new icon is the wise latina socialist from NY

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I don’t believe they think they can win a general election with an avowed socialist.

I think they are using that woman to convince the fringe left that the Democrat Party is still their home after what happened to Bernie.

If there is a socialist contender for the Dem nomination, he or she will be bought off before the primaries and will endorse whichever “centrist” minority they run in an appeal to the moderate Dems throughout the rust belt.

They can only win by running a centrist while convincing the fringe left not to go 3rd party. That’s what all the pearl clutching was about last night.
Of course, I assume at this point that Trumps strategy includes getting a chunk of the black vote, and if he does that, nothing else matters.