General Discussion

It's enough to say it's a rejection of Bernie as nominee. My own theory is that he hadn't even wanted to run for president, but felt he had to because no one speaking to Occupy values, to voters harmed by economic dislocation, to those disenchanted by the way of doing things, was going to run after Elizabeth Warren withdrew.

He lost, but there had to be a candidate with that type of platform or what would have been the point of having primaries? Primaries are pointless with debate and competing ideas.

The party embraced a lot of what that campaign was about in the platform.

And the ideas aren't unpopular among the general public.

As to the voters-it could technically be argued that the rejected the ideas of all wings of the party if you base it on November.

There's no way to increase support by making the party a place where none of those ideas are part of the Democratic message. Everyone knew Trump was horrible in November, but if simply pointing that out didn't work the first time, how could it possibly work now?

You and I both want to turn nonvoters into voters...people who aren't voting now are mainly young, mainly on the left, and/or mainly poor. What's your recipe for getting nonvoters to become voters?