How the Bernie Wing Won the Democratic Primaries

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65. bullshit. There is no so-called Sanders wing of the party. Sanders doesn't own

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the progressive label. Progressive Democrats have always been a large part of the party, long before he decided to temporarily associate himself as a Democratic to fulfill his political ambitions, and then just as quickly disassociate himself from the Democratic party.

Not lost to anyone who has eyes, the Dan Lipinski win was because it was an open primary. In fact it a large number of those in the Sanders campaign screaming for open primaries, and it was the very reason why the progressive candidate LOST to Lipinski. That progressive candidate is a Democrat, but because it was an Open Primary, and because the republican candidate was a neo-Nazi, most of those republicans crossed over in that primary to vote for the conservative Democrat, and in fact caused the PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT to lose.

I find it also curious, but not surprising from Politico, whose publication is notorious for stirring division up, that the biggest upset which was the Doug Jones victory for the Alabama Senate is glossed over.

In fact all the local and state races where Democrats won is glossed over, and so the author of this piece attributes it to this nebulous "Sanders wing" of the party. Not the progressive wing of the Democratic party mind you, but they choose to characterize it with the tag of a person who doesn't wish to be identified with the Democratic party.

Typical coming from Politico