i take your point even if i don’t fully agree - that aside there’s a larger point that as much as people decry local “establishment” politics would you not agree that’s there’s a revolving door of DC think thank, presidential administration, operative pipeline that’s establishment in another form?

lol how can you be an antiestablishment county it’s literally a party apparatus that makes no sense.

not sure you can still be anti establishment when you have been a sitting congressman and just stepped down from being a county chair

So yes to summarize - agreed! Big tent! But not for those of us who slow walked us to Trump. You're allowed a second chance - it should not be as a Democrat though.

If you, @thebulwark.com @lincolnproject.us actually were more than at this point opportunist or grifters you should have started a new conservative party years ago. I'm a pretty moderate Dem - so funnily enough I'm sure we have alignment on some views, but you don't belong in this tent.

Rampant income inequality, gerrymandering - pretty sure your class was the OG of this - didn't Wisconsin and NC get brutally gerrymandered by your pals? Corporate money corruption the system - all lead us here. You don't get to use the Dem party as a vessel to atone for your sins.

meehhhhh not really, Joe. Here's why (although I appreciate you seeing the light). You should not be welcome in our tent, and candidly the actual courageous and right thing to do would be to make your own party. Your policies as a "normal" Republican led us to this.

they need each other too much