Progressives storm Democratic primaries

[Jim Lane]

112. Yet you are, apparently, agreeing with what I actually wrote.

My view is that there's substantive disagreement within our ranks, which is normal and healthy, but that some elements on each side occasionally resort to name-calling and vitriol, which is counterproductive.

I said that "DINO" and "Hillbot" and the like were terms that people shouldn't use. You're not disagreeing with that -- at least, you're not disagreeing about "DINO" and other accusation flung from the left of the party toward the (comparative) right. You don't disclose your opinion about the insults that go the other way.

Maybe that's because you think that phenomenon doesn't even exist, because all the wrongdoing is on the part of the other side, and never by the people you agree with. You write, "You do not hear moderates impugning the character of progressives strictly for their political belief."

If you don't hear that, it's because you don't want to hear it. For a while, in 2016, my sig line was a juicy collection of such insults. Bernie supporters were bedbugs, cultists, terrible human beings, that sort of thing. You can find some milder examples right here in this thread.