Outside the party, Sanders escaped battered Dem syndrome. Joining it is an intervention.

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11. Love the addition of acronym!

It's a syndrome so common it does need a shorthand!

I was trying to find where I may have first came across the "diagnosis." I'm sure there are earlier instances, but the first one I can find is in a article about Dean's campaign (before the establishment crushed him). In What We Saw and Missed in 2003 Politics, Tom Curry observes that "No Democratic presidential contender has been better than Dean at diagnosing and treating the “battered Democrat” syndrome."

I hope with all my heart that the establishment is far less effective at derailing Sanders that they were with Dean.