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1/ Geoffrey Kabaservice, historian of the GOP, like other Never Trumpers, completely misunderstanding the progressives. At least he did not call Sanders or Warren the "hard left" or the "far left." Those would actually be the Marxists, Marxist-Leninist, Leninists, Stalinists,
2/ Troskyists, Maoists, Guevarrarists, and other cats & dogs. Sanders, styles himself as a "democratic socialist" and then describes policies that are FDR New Deal. Warren, is a capitalist. She wants to restructure corporations so they are more responsive to workers and
3/ communities, as well as providing incentives to produce what is socially necessary. The #GreenNewDeal is a bonanza of public spending for things built or made by private businesses. The moon shot and the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System are models: public money, private
4/ corporations, for the public good. All the Never Trumpers never saw the damage they were doing to the GOP in all their years of scholarship and punditry. // Do Democrats Win By Moving Left? Or is moderation the key to victory? | Geoffrey Kabaservice theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
5/ Here, Kabaservice goes off the deep end at an early part of his essay. Warren will take bipartisanship, if it existed, but will not tolerate GOP obstruction through the filibuster. Her plan? End the filibuster. Is that fighting "fire with fire"? A government is supposed to 
6/ govern. McConnell has engaged in illiberal thwarting of majority rule. Only gerrymandering prevented the Democrats from blowing out the House vote. Voter suppression and voter purges help the GOP win Senate races and state races. The GOP is not a party that wants to win a war
7/ of ideas. They campaign on FEAR and ANGER. Instead of looking forward like Reagan, they look backwards and shirk from all challenges. And then there are the trade agreements. For one thing, the Midwest Democrats opposed NAFTA and Clinton when it was presented to the Congress.
8/ Opposition to NAFTA from the worker base of the party is not new. Ross Perot campaigned against that "large sucking sound" of manufacturing jobs leaving the country. The problem with NAFTA & TPP were that they would shift sovereignty from the federal government to corporations
9/ and allow corporations to overturn any laws or regulations that hurt their profits. They are anti-democratic. They are negotiated in secret. Warren's plan is to open up those negotiations from the closed circle of corporate lobbyists to unions, environmentalists, & consumers.
10/ Not only will corporations leave jobs behind for five cents, they will kill you for five cents of profit. Did a car company fix the ignition for five cents? No. They kill you and pay out a cheaper outcome. Corporations will destroy lakes and rivers for profit. Yes, it is
11/ radical to stand up for workers, families, and communities and not privilege corporate profits. Yes, and while Warren (and Sanders) may not name Clinton and Obama, it is very clear that their neoliberal economic policies are out of favor in the current Democratic Party. We
12/ face multiple crises. Trump is an existential threat to democracy and his Christian Right base is an existential threat to a secular, multi-cultural society. They believe they are entitled to rule by virtue of their religion and everyone else is a second class citizen. They
13/ believe that the Democratic Party wins elections through cheating (something the GOP routinely does) and that Democratic Party voters are illegitimate voters. Scholars have long observed that the GOP rejects the legitimacy of the Democratic opposition. The GOP is the anti-
14/ system party. We face an existential threat from climate change. We either meet this challenge, or we will reduce our chances of surviving and thriving on this planet. The oil companies LIED to the American people and investors for decades. Since the 1960s, they knew fossil
15/ fuels caused climate change. Their own scientists told them this. They LIED and committed FRAUD. They persuaded elite media to parrot their "both sides" controversy about climate change. The bill is now due. Wall Street is fully committed to fossil fuels. It is now time to
16/ pay up. Not only do we face a climate change crisis, but this climate change crisis is affecting our immigration issue and our health care issue. As the climate gets hotter and lands less fertile, they flee. As the climate gets hotter, people need more health care. We either
17/ meet these crises or we shall succumb and decline. I want a Democrat who is willing to fight for what is right.
