> Sadly the progressive wings of the Democratic party never got the memo, and wrote them off until it was too late. Eh? They've never meaningfully had control

> Sadly the progressive wings of the Democratic party never got the memo, and wrote them off until it was too late. Eh? They've never meaningfully had control of the party, and are surely far more willing to e.g. abandon neoliberalism to avoid that handicap vs. a MAGA-ified Republican Party that's abandoned neoliberalism, than most of the rest of the Democratic Party is. It's the 3rd-way sorts and "centrists" who've been, and remained, in charge of setting direction and who've just kept on trucking with the "we mustn't upset the status quo!" and "maybe courting traditional Republicans will suddenly start working, so we should keep trying that" strategy, no?