“Plus, isn’t the real lesson of this upset—and it was such an upset—the relatization that Democrats and liberals more broadly cannot continue to ignore the suffering of the white middle and lower class?”

Don’t you guys have a system for suppressing laughably obsolete stories?

We deserve this. By definition. We have not yet done enough to make this country inhospitable to racist, misogynist pricks. We have not fought hard enough for a strong public school system that teaches critical thinking. We have not educated people well enough on international economics for them to see how…

Van Jones’ reading of this event is fine as far as it goes, but it is too partial. Think of Trump’s electoral coalition as the sum of Fervent Supporters (that is, the “whitelash”) + Willing-to-Screw-Women-and-Latinos-and-Muslims-and-Democracy-to-Get-Another-Scalia (your basic, everyday “I’m not a racist, but ...”…

In response to the firebombing of a GOP office in North Carolina:

When adults don’t see the problem with major league teams called “Redskins” and “Indians,” it’s not a huge surprise that their kids are just as ignorant and insensitive.

One is a protest against private exploitation of community lands, and the other was a protest in favor of private exploitation of community lands. Is it capitalism? Racism? No reason it can’t be both.

This might have been appropriate through the mid-1990s, but it’s insane today.

Sounds familiar.

Who the fuck are you to be calling people “assbrain” for proposing what are unarguably improvements to TANF? I’m sorry if Neera Tanden is too moderate for you, but she’s a decent person and doesn’t deserve this kind of B.S.

It was totally creepy how he was looming behind her. Through a combination of his demeanor, his comments, and his behavior, he managed to turn the masculine advantage of height, which has typically been quite important among male candidates, into a disadvantage. And I shouldn’t discount Clinton’s role in taking…

Trump has done an excellent job of making Bush look good.

Trump is at his best in highlighting neglected problems, but he has such a rudimentary understanding of why these problems exist and has such bad instincts about how to go about fixing them that “bull in a China shop” doesn’t begin to capture the harm he could do. He is right to point out how little Democrats as a…

This is what guilds are supposed to be for. Not that I’ve done it terribly often.

This would be a great idea, if prison labor was not coerced labor.

They were aiming for “The Dirty Dozen” ... but just got dirty?

I don’t get it.

One of the most important questions posed by the Kaine choice is whether it means what it seems to mean — that Clinton is going to pursue the old, failed policy of putting most of her resources into courting the elusive white male swing voter. It didn’t work for Gore or Kerry. Instead, Clinton needs to convince the…

Kudos to Colbert!

Troll.