@tillshadeisgone @FantasticalEconomics And yet Sanders is still there, and the Squad is still there.
If you really want an example of a major party utterly purging its leftist wing, look at the UK’s Labour Party. Anything we are dealing with here pales in comparison.
But many American leftists, like many Americans, must be exceptionalist. We have the worst! We have the evilest! We have reasons to be the most hopeless!