Just don’t associate liberals, meaning real economic and social progressives, with anything having to do with the sad state of affairs today.

I’d be careful with that notion of “real economic and social progressives.” It’s easy to, as the Democratic Party has done for several generations, filter out diverse voices in the name of playing to “real” issues. One need not abandon fights like criminal justice reform, immigration reform, or trans equality in the interest of fighting income inequality or regulating Wall Street.

I’m prone to agree Sanders would have won and it’s painfully plain he was cheated by a coordinated effort within the DNC to pick Clinton. But I don’t think it’s particularly useful to say “Oh, those liberals over there are why we lost.” After all, a not-insignificant number of Sanders supporters abandoned their supposed ideological purity in the name of voting against Clinton in November.