It has been four years since I wrote my ideas detailing the fallacy of what I called the Carville doctrine (http://www.dailykos.com/...). This way of thinking states that it is useless, nay harmful, to challenge established Democrats in the primary who are not being progressive enough, because, one, the challenger would never win the primary, and two, it would invariably throw the election to the Republican as the incumbent would have to waste valuable resources defending a doomed primary challenge. I had also argued that this way of thinking was problematic because it ensured that progressive ideas were always put on hold as Democrats tried to pander to the latest nonsensical right wing whim. I had said that a primary challenge was the only way to get these Democrats to actually live up to the progressive ideals outlined in the party platform that they purported to strongly believe in. Yes, splitting the vote like this would sometimes result in a Republican victory, but the upside was that you would only have to do it a few times before the establishment Democrats got the message and started toeing the line.
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