Quote:  Right now,  Michelle Obama might want to take a step back.   Yet,  in a couple of years,   if there are many on the left calling for her to run and it looks like there's a very realistic opportunity for the Democrats to win the 2020 Election with a unifying on the left candidate,  I think she's going to be very tempted to run.

 

 Keith Ellison certainly appeals to a large number of far left progressives.  Whether he would get enough support from the Blue Dog / closer to the middle Democrats remains to be seen.   I have at least some doubts.

You might be on to something with Michelle Obama uniting idea. I could see that being the case were it to happen. 

 

As for the bolded, just like with the certain camp of the right not caring what the moderate/establishment GOP thinks the far left progressives as you say don't care what the moderate/blue dogs see is being a good strategy moving forward. Their strategy has been garbage. If it wasn't for the incredibly charismatic and eqloquent Obama that suggested to the left that he was something he wasn't in 2008 they would have just rolled on with the same old same old and more and more of the dem party are sick of it. They see an opportunity to take the party over like the tea party tried to do with the GOP.

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