To me, the battle within the left isn’t an ideological one just like the battle within the right wasn’t one. Kasich actually implemented a lot of the things that are very popular with conservative voters as Ohio’s governor and worked to implement as a representative. What’s going on here is something much more than that. Within the left too. I actually don’t really have too much disagreement with the OR Wing, I think universal health care is a great goal to consider and I think we should definitely strive for more affordable post secondary education but I also have this pragmatic streak that comes from reading history. It’s knowing that the Nordic countries didn’t just do socialized health care. It did take time and we have other factors i.e. a societal aversion to SOCIALISM, a much bigger country, and yes racial resentments that make that harder. Of course, you bring that up and you get called a neo-lib or told to shut up about identity politics but we didn’t create identity politics. Identity politics were forced on us from the start.