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No, Sanders is not trying to boot moderates out of the Democratic Party and erect a progressives-purity test. He just objects to Clinton’s misrepresenting herself as a progressive Democrat when she is, by her own fairly recent and proud description, a moderate Democrat.

…general ideological label as progressive rather than moderate. She is not, overall, a progressive. She is, overall, a moderate. He’s complaining about the false labeling, the false advertising. He thinks…

More than an election message

…and direct, must reflect progressive moral values, and must be repeated. Progressive framing is about saying what you believe, telling the truth, and activating the progressive worldview already present in…

Same labels, same old stuff

…the following: * Conservatives often use progressive ideas as a pejorative, and will quite easily label a progressive by a general term. Labelling them as “communists”, for example, even though…

At least as of yesterday morning, the Democratic establishment still didn’t get it. Then again, as of late yesterday, neither did the Republican establishment. And neither did Donald Trump. [UPDATED]

…and outspoken progressive wing of his caucus, led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who have legions of supporters. But he also has five red-state Democrats…