I hope my liberal friends hear the shouted lesson of the British election yesterday where the bombastic and unpredictable conservative Boris Johnson won a landslide victory over his far left opponent, Jeremy Corbyn.
It will happen here if the Democrats nominate a Medicare For All candidate - i.e. Warren or Sanders. I strongly support a Klobachar, Buttigieg, or Biden instead - or any other non-Medicare For All candidate.
I know that the far wing of either party gets all the passion and hullabaloo, but they won't get the votes.
I know Trump will call any Democrat a far leftist, but the country can elect a liberal but it won't elect someone they see as an extremist (and Medicare For All and free college tuition are very far left, indeed)
To beat Trump, which I believe is necessary to save/restore democracy and the institutions of democracy (unintimidated free press, unintimidated intelligence agencies, unintimidated judiciary, unintimidated State Department, science based policies in weather and health and environment, fair elections, functioning governmental departments, etc.) the Democrats need to heed the failure of their British counterparts and move far away from the American versions of Corbyn.
