A basic problem with the Nagle-Tracey primary analysis

It is probably harder, not easier, to run up your numbers in a crowded field.

Another round of takes on the failure of Sanders 2020 — this time, with an essay by Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey. Most of the discourse that has come out of this has wrestled with their central claim: that the campaign became enmeshed in “radical liberal culture wars” and that this cost Sanders the nomination. Here, however, I want to look at a point…