It took only one question — the very first — in Tuesday night's Democratic presidential primary debate to make it clear that the issue that united the party in last year's congressional elections in many ways now divides it.
When Jake Tapper of CNN asked Senator Bernie Sanders whether his Medicare for All health care plan was “bad policy” and “political suicide,” it set off a half-hour brawl that drew in almost every one of the 10 candidates on the stage. Suddenly, members of the party that had been all about protecting and expanding health care coverage were leveling accusations before a national audience at some of their own — in particular, that they wanted to take it away.
