Trouble Ahead? Obama Seems to Be Firing Warning Flares to His Fellow Party Members About 2020

From Berlin, Obama sees the first vestiges of the circular firing squad forming with his party and that could dash their hopes of beating Trump in 2020. We now have prominent Democrats in this clown car calling for the end of private health insurance. It’s madness. Oh, and if you’re not for that, then you could be a shill for the insurance industry and not really be all for healthcare for all or something. Everyone’s dirty laundry is about to be aired in the name of progressive purity (via The Hill):

Former President Obama expressed concern about the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, saying he feared it could end up undercutting allies.

Speaking at a town hall event on Saturday for the Obama Foundation in Berlin, the former president spoke about the need for compromise in politics, citing the Affordable Care Act as something that he said signified progress even though it did not achieve all of his aspirations for U.S. health care.

“One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States —maybe it’s true here as well — is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ‘Uh, I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be,’ and then we start sometimes creating what’s called a ‘circular firing squad,’ where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues. And when that happens, typically the overall effort and movement weakens,” he said.

“So I think whether you are speaking as a citizen or as a political leader or as an organizer … you have to recognize that the way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you, and that by definition means you’re not going to get 100 percent of what you want,” he added.

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