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Are the Democrats suffering an identity crisis?

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Hillary Clinton may not be facing much of a primary challenge, but that doesn't mean that

Democrats aren't divided among themselves. Left-wing progressives are beginning to sound like

Tea Party conservatives. They don't want compromise with Republicans or other Democrats.

It starts at the top with the president and Senator Elizabeth Warren disagreeing on free trade,

and it's playing out in primary races around the country.

One reporter calls it an ancient blood feud that's finally come out in the open.

Is it all about ideology versus pragmatism or the best way to raise money?

Today's talking point, remembering BB King.

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Hello again, Mormon, only, back with To the Point. President Obama has attacked union leaders and senators of his own party in unusually personal terms.

Even former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's harder for Democrats to love each other than it used to be.

How deep is the split between centrist, pragmatism, and progressive ideology?

How will it look to the voters in next year's primary campaigns?

Today's talking point,

B.B. King picked cotton on the plantation where he was born. He rose to become a world-traveling ambassador for the blues. He died yesterday in Las Vegas at the age of 89. We'll have a remembrance

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