"For all the talk of what the Democratic Party should learn from Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani, there should be at least as much talk of what they should learn from [Joe] Manchin or [Jared] Golden or Marie Gluesenkamp Perez or Sarah McBride. The party should be seeking more, not less, internal disagreement."
"The coalescing around Joe Biden in the 2020 primary, the besmirching of Bernie Sanders supporters, the eschewing of that movement in 2016, and even in this current moment with Zohran Mamdani, who has been a shot in the arm for the Democratic Party, you still have Chuck Schumer refusing to endorse him. And Hakeem Jeffries's endorsement is lukewarm at best."
"I love it. I'm so excited to disagree with you! He continued, The point Ezra's trying to make is it takes two wings to fly. He's trying to say Democrats need to build a big tent. And he's not saying you got to choose between Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders and the centrist wing. He's saying Democrats need to compete in more places."
Emma Vigeland sharply criticized Ezra Klein for urging Democrats to embrace more internal disagreement from centrist members, calling the centrist flank corporatist and increasingly irrelevant. Klein urged attention to figures like Joe Manchin, Jared Golden, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Sarah McBride and argued the party should seek more internal disagreement. Vigeland cited Biden's 2020 coalescing, the treatment of Bernie Sanders supporters, and perceived tepid endorsements for Zohran Mamdani by Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as evidence of an intra-party fight. MSNBC panelists then debated Klein's big-tent argument and the need to compete in more places.
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