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by ger32
on 10/6/16
However, Taibbi continued:

The maddening thing about the Democrats is that they refuse to see how easy they could have it. If the party threw its weight behind a truly populist platform, if it stood behind unions and prosecuted Wall Street criminals and stopped taking giant gobs of cash from every crooked transnational bank and job-exporting manufacturer in the world, they would win every election season in a landslide.

Source:
As Establishment Lines Up Behind Clinton, Calls Resound to 'Let it Bern'
"The Bernie campaign didn't get this far by deferring to the powerful, and there's no good reason to start now," says Norman Solomon of RootsAction
byDeirdre Fulton, staff writer at CommonDreams website

(gdn: For full article--copy & paste to search that, which follows—the word “Source” and ends with “writer”)