How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win.

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410. I'd say 20% of the Establishment, the farseeing progressive part

gets blamed for the shit the other 80% does, aka the greedy, warmongering, feckless part. The Establishment is more like Paul Ryan than it is Barack Obama. And therein lies the problem, the 20% doesn't have enough power to wage all out war against the 80% without getting steamrolled, so they have to compromise, but the fact that they won't wage all out war, even as the extreme right gets even more extreme, creates this kind of dissatisfaction.

Of course, from my perspective even the progressive part of the Establishment is by no means perfect (I want the Repubs to be running on what the Dems are proposing now, and I want the Dems to be running on basic income, worker ownership of large corps, and large scale transition to cooperative enterprise), but we've never really seen the kind of uncontested dominance of progressive power in most of our lifetimes.