@BenRossTransit i'm not really talking about or seeing much from tankies or DSA types, and the divisiveness is certainly very muted compared to what it might have been. 1/

@BenRossTransit but there's a real fear in the social democratic left that i inhabit of a new Obama, of a candidate who inspires and then betrays. the candidates affiliations, Tony West, Anita Dunn, are a bit terrifying. 2/

@BenRossTransit everyone is preemptively ready to fall in line with any VP pick, i think. but that fear, which i try to persuade is unevidenced and exaggerated for now, may become an enduring fault line if it's Shapiro or Kelly. /fin