Comrade Joan Walsh:  Please, Democrats: Don’t Attack Bernie Sanders for Joining Your Party

The Nation has a column from admitted Obama supporter Joan Walsh:

 Democrats should reject O’Malley’s attempt to stigmatize Sanders for choosing to run in the party’s primary though he has long labeled himself a democratic socialist, and chose to serve in Congress as an independent. For my entire adult life, there has been debate on the left over whether the Democratic Party is beyond redemption, a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America just slightly less evil than the GOP, or a ready vehicle to improve the lives of Americans and blunt corporate power, if only progressives and socialists would get on board and pull its policies and politics to the left.

Count me in the latter camp, along with the late Democratic Socialist Michael Harrington, who preached the virtues of being on “the left wing of the possible” (defining what’s “possible” has always been the rub). And now Bernie Sanders.

Joan Walsh: democratic socialist.