another reminder that the dem party is not a flaming liberal org, and a guy like sanders is going to struggle mightily. People like Beto and Amy and Biden win Dem pres elections, not people like Sanders and Warren.
The NYT has some good graphics showing that the liberals are very loud in the party and dominating the discussion now...but come super tuesday the moderates will likely take over. FB and Twitter and LRC are not at all representative of the Dem party.
"The candidates of the progressive left, whether Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, speak with moral clarity. The strongest traditional liberal candidates, despite their pragmatic streak, speak with hopeful idealism, stemming from their relatively optimistic view of the country’s capacity to compromise, reform and change. Barack Obama took that tack in 2008, and Beto O’Rourke and Cory Booker might hope to in 2020.
In recent decades, most of the candidates who have found their core strength among the party’s ideologically consistent, left-liberal activist base have lost. Gary Hart, Jerry Brown, Jesse Jackson, Howard Dean and Mr. Sanders all fell short against candidates of the party’s establishment, like Walter Mondale, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. The establishment candidates won the nomination by counting on the rest of the party’s voters."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/08/upshot/democratic-electorate-twitter-real-life.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage