Yes people like that are not as progressive as you and I hope I am more progressive than them. I think it's very sad that you are not willing to build on what you have in common with these people. Without compromise there will never be a true coalition. Republicans will be in the majority.

I want a more liberal progressive government than I'll probably get with Biden but sure as hell I'm getting a better government than I would have gotten with Trump. Throughout history coalitions and baby steps have been our only true progressive achievements.

@Lorajay The left needs their own party, not the Dems. "Compromising" with them has only led to the party moving more and more to the right since the mid 1980s. The only thing that might move them back to the left is finding that the left has abandoned or credibly threatens to abandon them with a viable third party. Then they would move to the left, maybe, since they would no longer have a chance of winning prez elections. But I am doubtful that they really care anymore as long as they keep getting all the corporate campaign money. Do you really still believe that winning matters to the Dem leaders more than the corporate donations and stopping progressives from ever taking over the party? Because I haven't believed that for more than a decade.