Like their Republican counterparts, Cardinale said, a Sanders - inspired super-progressive movement would
value ideological purity over electability and would threaten the Democratic Party's «big tent» tradition of accommodating a wide range of viewpoints.
The issue then becomes one of deciding whether the
value of
ideological purity surrounding the inviolability of animal rights, or of the biological interests of the individual whale, forecloses the pursuit of a policy with the potential to reduce these harms in the aggregate but not end them entirely.