“Medicare for All,” “Abolish ICE,” “Tax the Rich” are common expressions on the campaign trail. They advance important policies: the moral and economic necessity of providing health insurance for everyone, the need to stop ICE’s abuses, and the importance of addressing the income inequality which threatens our democracy.

These are important goals which all Democrats should be able to rally around. With all the focus, however, on slogans and the purported differences between the “progressive” or the center-left wing of the Democratic Party what is lost is that, apart from some extreme Democratic Socialists, on these critical issues all Democrats share common values.

Healthcare is an example. Democrats believe that having a country where everyone has health insurance is both right and makes economic sense.

“Progressive” Democrats favor “Medicare for All,” a single-payer system in which all Americans must participate. This is one approach to making sure........

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