EDIT: irrelevant to the eventual presidency, that is. They'll obviously pose big issues during the primary. But that's a long-standing weakness in the Democratic party and the progressive movement.


No Democrat will sign any significant law in the next eight years, let alone an ambitious proposal like M4A or free tuition.

We won't take back the Senate in 2020, even a simple majority, and it'll be even harder to take it back in the next three cycles.

So the only job of a Democratic president is to staff the courts and bureaucracies with people who aren't right-wing lunatics, and to veto attempts from a GOP congress to throw personal rights and liberties in the wood chipper. All the Democrats would be functionally identical on those counts.