You calling yourself a democrat would be like AOC saying she is a republican. 
Originally Posted by adav8s28
And that's the problem with the overwhelming partisanship and animosity these days.
He said Democrat. He didn't say "leftist, "liberal, "progressive" or "socialist".
That at the federal level Democrats are now falling in line with the move toward the hard left, does not mean are there not still good Democrats out there.
It's also why as the OP noted, the "Democrats" are running out of bullets as they move further and further left.