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Will Rogers: "I belong to no organized party, I'm a Democrat."

The GOP does stay on message. Democrats fight about policy & strategy. The fighting between the White House v. progressives and progressives v. Democratic loyalists is normal. It may hurt Democrats in the midterm. That doesn't mean I want to see Democrats become dittoheads, have one one set and ideological purity tests. That have destroyed the Republican Party and allowed people like Sharron Angle and Joe Miller to take center stage. The Democratic Party needs to be a big and dysfunctional tent. It is a pain in the ass. The longterm results will be better policies for the American people.

Update: Instead of people being mad at progressives Democratic loyalists should be mad at conservative Democrats actively working with Republicans to kill lefty proposals.

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