Herding Cats

‘The Far Left Is the RepuGNicans’ Finest Asset’: An intense battle between moderates and progressives has already spilled into public view.

A strategist stressed his own ambivalence [about Democratic divisions]:

We need to extend the tent and extend the map further in some way — out of necessity. That’s where I sympathize with the centrists. You also need a strong, passionate, determined base. That’s where I sympathize with the progressives.

The Democratic Party, he noted, is inherently 

hard to manage. From race, to culture, to socioeconomic status. All of these items — knowledge professions vs. working class, young vs. old, rural vs. suburban vs. urban — makes us far more complex to manage than the [resentment-motivated, pseudo-Christian, poorly-educated, older, mostly male, in-group whites who vote for the Greedy Obstructionist Plutocrats].

Moderates angrily lashed out at liberals woke-flakes, accusing them of allowing divisive rhetoric such as “defund the police” and calls for [non-corporate] socialism to go largely unchallenged. Those on the [exalt victimhood] left pushed right back, accusing centrists of seeking to downgrade the [dangerously excessive] demands of minorities, including those voiced at Black Lives Matter protests.