that faction within the democrats that parrots the talking point regarding the unelectability of sanders are 1) buying into the narrative, driven by the likes of klobuchar, clintonites and media types such as MSNBC's chris matthews, that sanders is a full-fledged socialist when, in fact, sanders is basically a new deal democrat. so, what these factions are saying is that they either never cared for that era of the democrats or that it has been since bested by the far more centrist policies of neoliberalism that has been championed by both parties since the reagan administration. 2) warning everyone of the grave dangers of the socialist economics of sanders that will levy a huge cost on the DNC, in the form of lost congressional seats, which is just doubling down on the premise that the democrats are indeed self-proclaimed centrists (and proud of it, dammit!). 3) ignoring the fact that a big part of the reason that clinton lost was because she was so patronizing to the younger demographic (and black lives matter and other such movements); this demographic did not take the lesser evil when it came time to voting and 4) further moving the political spectrum of the country more and more to the right. clinton democrats are further to the right than the liberal republicans of days past; if they continue to insist that anything to the left of their center is just bad for the country, they are just doing the bidding of the right.