Former President Barack Obama's 'circular firing squad' remarks may not persuade the 2020 Democrats | By Nayyera Haq for CNNOpinion
Nayyera Haq is a host on SiriusXM Progress and CEO of an international communications firm. She served in the Obama administration as a senior adviser in the State Department and a senior director in the White House. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles at CNN.
In Berlin, the city famous for once dividing itself in two with a wall, former President Barack Obama tackled the issue of division in politics and his worries for the Democratic Party's future:"Among progressives in the United States ... is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, 'Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be.
Nayyera HaqHe's not wrong when it comes to the traditions of governing in a democracy, where, as he put it, you have"to take into account people who don't agree with you." Democrats, who represent the party of diversity, have historically been challenged when it came to herding cats in their coalition, even as the public discourse has been one of tolerance for a variety of ways to help working families.
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