It should be easier to be liberal

[Hortensis]

5. :) Who says we're ALL solidly liberal, though, socially and economically?

People are complex, not either-or. Sure, we're virtually all liberalish in some ways, and the large majority of us are part of a solidly liberal spectrum. But our grand alliance represents almost all types.

The farther left from our ideologically dominant solidly liberal bloc, the more and more people start reacting less like ordinary liberals and start showing similarities to their counterparts on the extreme right, even becoming downright anti-liberal.

And the same for Democrats on the right edge of our party; big surprise when conservative Dems act like conservative Repubs.

We all have overlapping commonalities, but the overlap for those yelling "lock her up" at our national convention was not with liberals. Nor was it "liberal" of those who went after the most powerful woman in American history, literally willing to potentially cripple our party and empower the Republicans, to take her out; no surprise that that largely drew people from both the farther left and right, our least liberal members going after the liberal leader.

Here's a statement from a solid liberal in the middle of our big ideological bloc, lots of overlap among almost all of us on this.

Link to tweet