they think hostage-taking and withholding their own power is the key to victory.

like their whole approach to elections is branding their opponent as not as 'pure' as them then threatening not to vote for the winning candidate when they lose.

they think their constituency is bigger than it is. like theyre the backbone of the democratic party. but like...out of the 40 house seats that dems just flipped in 2018...bernie-ish candidates (medicare for all, etc) only won...*1* of those seats. and that 1 candidate was part of a larger dem wave in ca that wiped the entire repub party out of orange county.

that would be cause for most sustainable political movements to self-reflect and focus on *expanding* their appeal. but these folks instead seem intent on pushing for stricter purity criteria and pushing the general dem base further away from them.