As much as we try to avoid it, many of Bernie Sanders' most ardent supporters are insisting on starting the 2020 campaign today -- this past week they launched a coordinated (and false) attack on Beto O'Rourke, apparently fearing that Beto might challenge Bernie for the Democratic nomination in 2020 -- and it threatens to cause a real rift on the left just as Democrats prepare to take over the House and finally take the fight to Donald Trump. Can a progressive civil war be avoided, or at least delayed? That's our topic for this bonus episode.

(Note that we began this discussion immediately after our interview with Marcy Wheeler, so you'll notice us discussing Marcy as the episode begins.)

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