2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How do you reshape the Democratic Party? Start with winning the nomination. [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)It was just argued here that ideas don't matter at all, just "winning." That's very silly.
I haven't seen anyone in American politics running on a no-compromises platform, nor any real right or left "wingers" running for President. Cruz was pretty far out on the Christian Right, but no one could fairly be called anything like a "purist."
I see this argument trotted out by conservative Dems who just don't like progressive Dems and prefer to imagine their own ideas are " the best we can do."
That's just posturing though. The truth is everyone even remotely in the running -- Trump perhaps being the exception -- has been a thoroughly modern, compromising politican with no overweening ideological fervor.
The better ones though would never make a nihilistic argument that "winning" matters more than the right ideas and policies.