My point is the same point I’ve been making all along. Might I suggest that you are the one who clearly doesn’t understand because you keep obtusely trying to redirect the conversation back to the same nonsense.

But let me state it once more. The representatives of the entrenched status quo use words like “unelectable,” “marginal,” “fringe” and “extreme” in an effort to preclude any challenge to the establishment, which is by default defined as “moderate,” “sensible,” “rational” and “centrist.”

I’m not talking about David Duke or Stalin or Hitler; I’m talking about Bernie Sanders, who is constantly described as “unelectable” despite the fact that he has name recognition and favorability ratings comparable to those of Biden, the “moderate” and “electable” candidate.

You talk about policies that “90 percent of Americans don’t support.” Which policies? Let’s bring this from the abstract to the concrete. Single-payer health care is supported by close to a supermajority of Americans including a significant minority of Republicans, yet it is still defined as “radical.”

Maybe you’re having a problem with the word “margins.” I’m not talking about what is legitimately fringe but what is mainstream yet still gets defined as such.

Hope that helps clarify things for you.