I am seriously worried that division within the party is being caused by Not Democrats fucking . . .

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21. it's primary season

...and feathers are being ruffled over candidate challenges.

There absolutely nothing to indicate Dems will be divided in November when it really counts.

My opinion is that Dems shouldn't act as if there aren't differences in our party. Just because they're highlighted in our primaries doesn't necessarily mean there's some fatal or injurious division.

What bothers me is the suggestion by some that it's unnecessarily divisive to press for a progressive agenda, for instance. I find it completely self-serving to support for incumbencies, for example, to complain there's something subversive about primary challenges, as has been argued to exhaustion here at DU.

I think using the crisis in the WH and Congress to suggest we shouldn't be pressing hard for progressive changes is a cynical and self-defeating stance which should be regarded as nothing more than crass partisanship.