Obama warns progressives to avoid 'circular firing squad' as Democrats prepare for 2020 showdown

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Barack Obama has urged progressives in the US to avoid becoming part of a “circular firing squad” that takes aim at people who do not share all their views.

In what will be interpreted as a comment about the nature of the rivalry between different factions within the Democratic Party, the former president stressed the need for compromise.

“The way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you,” he said at an event in Berlin hosted by the Obama Foundation. “And that, by definition, means you’re not going to get 100 per cent of what you want.”

According to The Hill, he added: “One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States….is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ‘Uh, I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be’, and then we start sometimes creating what’s called a “circular firing squad”, where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues.

“And when that happens, typically the overall effort and movement weakens.”

[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/barack-obama-progressives-firing-squad-warning-democrats-2020-berlin-a8858396.html|

Compromise is always key in a movement that spans so much diversity

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1. Listen to this man.

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2. For example:

The progressives who attacked Pelosi and vowed to withhold support for her.