Or: It’s actually a drain on the NBA, which feels compelled to keep the league alive because it’s a good thing to have the only professional women’s sports league among the big four American team sports. But that doesn’t mean it’s good for business. Unlike football and baseball, though, the demographic split is wider:…

Given that the league would go dark without huge support from the NBA and individual owners, not really. Adam Silver estimated that the league had lost at least $10 million every year it had been in existence, so nearly a quarter-billion in annual losses.

And it can even lead to a presidency.

They’re not superior to anything if you don’t have the conviction to stand behind them on their own merits. 

It’s still real to me, dammit.

If there were enough of you, then you could do as I’ve offered a couple times: Go form your own party, test your theory, and see how you do.

What the hell does that mean, “put up or shut up”? I’ve made a case that centrists have had the only path to the White House for Democrats in the past 70 years. And that’s been true. The reason for that is simple: More Americans are moderate than they are further left. That’s not an insult to progressives. That’s just…

In that case, why doesn’t the minority give up its principled positions? Or do you only want success on your terms and not those of others who have had legitimate success in this arena?

A poll about a thing that’s 15 months in the future is, like all polls, not “evidence” of anything. Evidence requires more proof than a possible indication does. And in this example, “evidence” of how 130+ million people will vote is a far different animal than what 3,000 people might anonymously say on the phone.

Wow, 2016 polling. Super reliable. Good position! (Also, polls aren’t elections.)

The “non-point” that the progressive wing of the party does not in any way constitute a majority of the Democratic Party much less the electorate writ large, so going all-in on those candidates is always a losing proposition, because it always has been, even as recently as the last presidential cycle?

So then your case for a progressive is, “They can’t win over enough Democrats, so why couldn’t they also win over independents?” No wonder you can’t win anything.

It’s not the same world, and yet, Arthur Schlesinger’s The Vital Center is still undefeated since 1947.

Yes, if only a progressive had run in 2016. That would have changed everything...Was there no progressive for the 2016 centrist to beat first? Hm.

Electability is not vapor. Please show how any far-left candidate has fared in presidential elections since World War II. Shouldn’t take you very long at all, since none of them have ever been elected. The only one even nominated got snowplowed by Richard Nixon. If you’re not concerned with whether you can actually…

The fact that centrist Democrats are the only ones to win presidential elections in the past 70 years? Other than that...no clue.

Well, let’s break it down:

Ben Shapiro makes an interesting statistical case. But what about Kobe’s Value Over Replacement Rapist numbers? I think that would seal the argument.

I can’t tie a knot in a balloon. It makes no sense that I’m incapable of doing that, as I can tie all sorts of other knots, but I fat finger them or rip the balloon...never goes right.

He’s got grit and intangibles. You can clearly see that.