“There has always been a section of the left, which I call the whiny party––the party that doesn’t really wanna win, they just wanna be pure, and if they go down swinging purely, then that’s fine. Well, the problem with that is it leaves behind the people who really need their help. If we’re gonna have a single-payer or Medicare for all or whatever we’re gonna have in health care… then we all have to pull together. And people who sit out or crank on some candidate because they did this or that that wasn’t to their purity test are basically turning their back on the very people they pretend to represent. So I don’t have a lot of patience with this wing of the progressive party.”
- Former DNC Chair Howard Dean on the current 'purity test' of the Democrat party
