David Axelrod on Chelsea's attack on Bernie: "It wasn't an honest attack"

[zazen]

26. y'all do get that we're going to need some of these Clinton supporters in Nov?

Twenty percent of them are so die hard I think they won't vote, or they'll write someone else in, or they'll run a third party candidate. Another 20% don't read these boards and won't care. The middle? At times we need to soften it just because we're going to have to figure out a way to get along.

When something like this happens, yes, let the enraged people get enraged, but I guess I was speaking from the position of the Bernie campaign. . . . you've been handed a great opportunity to look gracious while simultaneously dismissing one of the mostly stupidly deployed potential asset of your opponent's.

Infantilization is exactly what you do. Pity and disappointment are much more effective than dignifying the behavior with rage.

Whatever. Bernie's about to win the first two primaries, and we're all jazzed about that.