difference. obama in 2008 was doing all this, there are no red states, there are no blue states, there are just american states. he was being mr. moderate, mr. centrist. bernie sanders is running on what he believes but hillary and the others have made a calculation that the democratic party base has shifted. you know, lincoln chafee said last night he didn t leave the republican party, the republican party left him. well, itses a the other way around for bernie sanders the socialist. he didn t join the democratic party. the democratic party joined him. the things that would be career killers when bernie sanders was running for mayor of burlington in the 1980s, the things that would have been insane in the bill clinton era democrat party are now conventional wisdom. that was an explicitly socialist