2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Huffington Post: Bernie Sanders Should Not be Allowed to Hold the Democratic Party Hostage [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,370 posts)less on telling Democrats - whose party he does not now belong to nor ever did except for the comparatively brief period he ran for President as a Democrat - what THEY need to do and instead join Democrats in stopping Trump's agenda.
Until he quits treating Democrats as "the enemy" and starts focusing on the GOP, he has no creds with me.
Insofar as his support for Keith Ellison is concerned, if the only reason he believes that Democrats should support Keith Ellison is because Ellison was a Bernie supporter in the primaries, that is simply NOT enough for me.
I want someone who will 1) re-introduce and follow through completely Howard Dean's 50-state strategy that worked in 2006 and 2008 and ensure that the strategy will NEVER be discontinued; 2) someone who specifically recognizes the special needs and concerns of the party's cultural, racial, religious (or not) and gender disparate base, while continuing to argue for inclusion of all of the most vulnerable in our society, and who will address RW memes in an effective manner; and 3) someone who will actively lobby against the GOP agenda, whether that agenda is Trump's alone or whether it is that of the GOPers who believe that concentration on Trump will give them cover to do their most dastardly deeds.
If Keith Ellison can be that person, fine. If he cannot, then we need someone else who will, whether that person is OK with Bernie (who elected him god anyway?) or not.