There was a lot of pressure for the most banal, milquetoast, form of representation ever in the form of having a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic national convention with a vetted speech that involved nothing that would have criticized Israel at all.

Even that was too far.

Either the progressives are powerful enough that you have to take them seriously and give them concessions, or they aren’t and you get to ignore them.

What you don’t get to do is give them nothing and blame them when you lose. Or, I guess you do if you’d prefer to lose the general over letting a progressive win the primary.

Huh, funny that, who knew there is a lot of levers and controls that a primary winner, even one that lost the general, gets.