2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How do you reshape the Democratic Party? Start with winning the nomination. [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)This year's Democratic Party is not what last year's was. Next year's will be different still. In the meantime, issues will be argued and discussed and fought over.
The American political process is not a static series of electing individuals and adopting whatever it is they do. That would be fascism, and it's not what we do here in America, or in the "Democratic" Party.
Leaders are nice, but we support them because and to the extent they reflect the will of the people who permit them to hold office. For that matter, even elected leaders do not always agree, nor do Democrats vote in a unanimous block, as we all know quite well.
Is the hope here that Progressives in general will somehow now go away and stop trying to have any input in the party of which they are a part?
Because that's not going to happen. And it shouldn't, and you shouldn't want it to.