Doyle McManus: Worries that Democrats will go too far in primaries appear unfounded

At the outset of the presidential campaign, Democratic Party elders worried about an epidemic sweeping from one primary state to the next: a sudden plague of litmus tests.

At coffee klatches and town halls, activists pushed candidates to embrace progressive positions on a long list of issues: "Medicare for all," the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, reparations for African Americans, impeachment now.

Also abolishing the electoral college, free college tuition, ending the filibuster in the Senate, outlawing fracking, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, legalizing marijuana