Amy Klobuchar is a nasty boss. Joe Biden didn’t believe Anita Hill. Cory Booker is far too fond of charter schools. Elizabeth Warren offended Native Americans. Bernie Sanders’ staff engaged in sexual harassment. Kamala Harris wasn’t always a perfectly progressive prosecutor. And so on.
There are no perfect candidates. Anyone with the requisite experience to be president has a record that can be used against him (or her). What’s important here, particularly during the debates, is to keep the focus on determining who is the best candidate to beat Trump and run the country, not the one responsible for the fewest heresies against the current party orthodoxy, which is very different than it was even ten years ago. Will that happen? Based on the dynamics of debates and the status of the race to date, I have my doubts.