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This is spot on from @econjared washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…. There is a real debate among Dems about the best way to achieve shared goals; that's fine, as long as it doesn't turn into ad hominem attacks 1/ 
Health care is probably the key issue. Most progressive policy wonks would go for a single-payer system if it were on the table. But many (including me) worry that the politics of forcing people off private insurance onto a public program are too hard 2/
And many European countries achieve universal coverage with regulated/subsidized private systems, so that's a workable path. Now, it's OK to argue that we can go for all-out single payer and win, even if polling suggests otherwise 3/
It's not OK to make this a purity test, and condemn anyone who thinks that's a dubious political strategy as a neoliberal shill. (And its also not OK to condemn single-payer types as radical socialists, although I'm not seeing much of that among Dems.) 4/
Let's be blunt: the two nightmare scenarios are either that an incrementalist Dem gets the nomination, but faces continual sniping from the Bernie types, or –less likely, I think – that Bernie or someone like him gets the nom and faces sniping from the incrementalists 5/
In either case, that would be unforgivable self-indulgence. Don't go there. 6/
