Imagine such a candidate. Really think about it. Use all the straw you need. They graduated from Berkeley. They're wearing a Che Guevara shirt with a trans rights flag pin. They derive sexual satisfaction from seeing middle aged white men denied the use of the 15 items or less line at the supermarket. Would you vote for them? You, dudalb, self-avowed conservative Democrat, would you personally hold your nose and vote for them for the sake of preserving democracy in America?
If you would, by your own logic everyone to the left of you would have an increasingly easier time and such a candidate should be a shoo-in. So what's the problem?
Unless this is a tacit admission that you would not vote for them, that you personally, dudalb, would rather have Trump in office than a *gasp* SOCIALIST *shock* *faint.* Is that the case?
Given that this is the third election in a row where it turns out the only candidates that aren't "too far left to win in the general election" are incredibly old, out of touch, and stand at best 50/50 odds of beating a carved pumpkin of Adolf Hitler, maybe you need to recalibrate your radar a skosh?