I'm thinking you may not come around on this, but politically it is too late to push against them on those two issues. If you push you'll get knocked right over by the response. If you die on that hill you won't be able to fight to win others, like the social and economic battles that can be won. Demographics show…

Today counter-protests are stronger than original protests in many cases. There are exceptions, but Republicans and conservatives are usually better at organizing. Riling them up is going to have an outsized reaction that is exactly the opposite of your desired outcome. Bernie was brilliant to not focus on those…

Politically successful yes, but his gun control agenda was a liability and went nowhere anyway. Lesser politicians would lose because of it. It was a big reason Hillary lost. If Democrats moderate, or at least just shut up about guns and abortion for a few minutes they'll win almost everything. Their views on these…

Obama lost a lot of votes with his old bitter clinger comment, and he wasn't able to get any gun control legislation through Congress. He also drove firearms sales to the highest levels in recent history. I wouldn't call that managing.

Gun control is a political death wish in national politics, Sanders is absolutely right that as long as Democrats stick to that issue they will lose every election is all but a handful of states. Be practical and deal with it. I'm not aware of any credible research that makes additional gun control make sense except…