Trump Rages, Rosenstein, Cohen's Tapes, The Midterms: With Guest Molly Jong-Fast

We are a large country with diverse ideas. For Democrats to move
more to the left as a party is to embrace the idea of forcing more
radical policies onto those citizens who disagree, not to work at
compromise or solutions that work for all citizens. Let’s take note
of what has happened to the Republican party since the birth of the
Tea Party. It has split the party to the point of destroying it and
has led to radical politics on the right. Why would we Democrats
want to repeat their mistakes? If the Democrats go too far to the
left, they may blow it. If they can’t win in 2018, they are already
in trouble for 2020. If they lose 2020, Trump may have four Supreme
Court justices during his presidency, making the court 7–2 for the
next couple decades or so, not to mention an extension of the
carnage he has already unleashed. Notice how organized labor?—?the
real bastion of the left?—?is backing the “mainstream” or
“centrist” Democrats. In the topsy-turvy world we live in, the
“centrists” are the real left, and “the left” are right-wing
identitarians. They’re the nonwhite version of the white
nationalists they profess to hate so much. I will give Sanders
credit, he is for real, but throwing his lot in with these groups
will dilute whatever appeal his message might have by tying it to
identity politics and open borders. The working-classes will never
back those positions.