Hillary to hard left: Let's make up

Hillary Clinton, of all people, is now the one calling for party unity. That's rich. This is a woman who spent years telling anyone who'd listen that Bernie backers were Russian bots and basement dwellers, and now she wants Abdul El-Sayed's online army to bury the hatchet with the same establishment they spent months calling corporate sellouts. It's not peacemaking. It's triage.

The funny part is she's not wrong that the Michigan race matters, and she's not wrong that a Democratic civil war helps nobody but Republicans. But asking the hard left to just get over it, after the party spent a decade telling them their candidates were unelectable and their politics were fringe, isn't a bridge. It's a demand for surrender dressed up as diplomacy. El-Sayed's supporters didn't invent the vilifying. They were reacting to it.

What's actually happening here is a party that never resolved its own identity crisis trying to paper over it every two years right before an election, then going right back to open warfare the moment the votes are counted. Clinton knows the Democratic coalition is held together with duct tape and vibes. She's just the latest person hoping nobody looks too closely until November.