Making the Turn from Insurgent to Establishment

By ocean-kat on Thu, 01/14/2016 - 4:18pm |

Here’s what Dean said:

They [his supporters] were deeply invested in having somebody who wasn’t going to be putting up any with crap from the establishment. And having been a governor for six terms, I knew very well that the governor has to put up with crap from everybody. Your job is to make things work and that means that you can’t exclude people, whether you like them or not…I had to teach them an incredibly unpleasant lesson, which was that people like me don’t win presidencies behaving like that. You have to deal with the reality that includes a whole lot of people that aren’t progressive…and I was going to have to teach them that that was going to be part of the deal.

URL:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_01/making_the_turn_from_insurgent059289.php