I didn’t say it was working. I’m not defending it, but it made sense on paper.

To be fair, I think the Dems could have run Jesus himself and would have still lost. There was literally no good candidate on the face of the earth that would have placated progressives whilst also being someone moderates would have considered. And you need both to win.

e: propaganda hasn’t only worked on the right – it’s also gone a long way to dividing the left into near-irrelevancy.