The point here isn't Nader's ethics, which I have as many issues with as you-there's no excuse, for example, for the fact that he has spent years running third-party presidential campaigns and, throughout that time, refused to do any work at all on the issue of electoral reform, and this is a guy who could probably led successful initiative campaigns in most of the swing states to distribute electoral votes proportionately and to establish some form of proportional representation for local government, state government, and congressional races- but what I'm saying here is that it isn't all about Nader.

It's about the brutal swing to the right-a swing that included an open embrace of the bogus white supremacist narrative which implied that out of wedlock births, welfare abuse, substance abuse and violent crime are predominately or even exclusively "black things", and white America is simply entitled to regard itself as intrinsically morally superior to black and brown America- the massive cuts in social benefits and the further weakening of unions- that the Democratic Party started in 1980 and massively accelerated in the Nineties.

You can't seriously argue that the Democratic leadership should be able to move the party further and further and further and further to the right, stripping it of any core values at all as Bill did, but should STILL be entitled to demand that all progressives vote Democratic. You can't seriously argue that progressives owe the party everything and the party owes progressives and the base nothing at all.