This anti-left resentment is being stoked for ideological reasons. It's a bad idea, because ...
12. This is the call-up.
Like it or not, mainstream Democrats and the independent left are now in a form of shotgun wedding. They'll need to work together for the next four years.
Trump's bigotry, bullying, and contempt for democracy aren't a deviation from the modern GOP. He represents modern Republicanism in its most distilled form. Soon he'll have the power to turn his ugly words into even uglier deeds. (When it comes to mass deportation, he's already started.)
Mutual enmities will need to be set aside for the common good. The left and the party faithful may be angry at each other, but they're on the same side now, locked together in a nonviolent political movement to resist Trumpism and remake American politics.
That sounds like a story worth telling.
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