> For all the evils of lesser evil-ism, the lesser evil is less evil.
Not if it is the lesser evil that maintains the existence over time of both lesser and greater evils. And that is the case, as it happens, of the DP & the RP. Hence the _greatest_ evil is the left (or progressive) wing of the DP, which will _never_ have a significant impact on policy but will prrovide the cover for the evil the DP does. Without anti-war Democrats the Vietnam War might have ended much sooner.
Carrol