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…some doubt on the usefulness of such labeling. For example, the label “cyclical” often implies — whether implicitly or explicitly — that declines in the participation rate explained by “cyclical”…

No, Sanders is not trying to boot moderates out of the Democratic Party and erect a progressives-purity test. He just objects to Clinton’s misrepresenting herself as a progressive Democrat when she is, by her own fairly recent and proud description, a moderate Democrat.

…general ideological label as progressive rather than moderate. She is not, overall, a progressive. She is, overall, a moderate. He’s complaining about the false labeling, the false advertising. He thinks…