This article is… embarrassing, to say the least. A free press plays an important role in denouncing fascism, but these are the same exact institutions whose (overwhelmingly straight, white, and male-dominated) editorial boards' "political intuition" was proven worthless throughout the course of the election; these…

All of the evidence supports the idea. All of it. It all runs counter to what you're asserting. There is nothing "wishful" in assessing the statical data we have and making a judgement call based on substantive evidence; simply repeating that Bernie would've faced criticism while citing no evidence to back up the…

"…but at least it’s probably better than whatever Taylor Swift is doing."

I genuinely have no idea what this means.

You're right on the money. Swearing off polls because it's convenient for your argument (when the national polling wasn't that far off at all) is just disingenuous.

…by significantly lower numbers. And the national polling showed that she'd beat Trump by a couple of points. She won nearly three million more votes. The polls were right. Factor in a 10 to 15 point lead as opposed to a 2 to 4 point lead and… what? You somehow get a loss? This argument doesn't make any sense.

You're deflecting. This has nothing to do with his point. You keep going back to the tired "purist!!" and "children!!" talking points without engaging the substance of what those who disagree with you are saying.

If this is about Trump supporters, ignore the rest of this response. If you're referring to Bernie primary voters (who liked Bernie because of his policy positions and electability per every poll, ergo he was the all-around better choice, not because they were looking for a messiah), this has to be disingenuous. You…

The lack of information was the problem and why she received the votes she received; all of those reports about the disproportionate coverage of Hillary/Trump compared to Bernie's occasional mentions were important.

I actually addressed all of this in my post; I'd pay close attention to the part about Bernie's massively disproportionate positives.

Again, there's nothing to back any of these assumptions up.

I suggest you re-read my post. I addressed every point you just raised.

I'd really suggest you look at the two's voting records before trotting out the blithely dismissive "pure" rhetoric. Aside from the substantial differences in policy (healthcare, foreign policy, education, especially when comparing the two at the beginning of the primary before one candidate "evolved"), they have…

I hear these arguments on a daily basis, but they do nothing to refute the fact that literally every poll taken prior to the election had Bernie up by anywhere between 10 and 15 points, well above the Hillary v. Trump match-up (and would've more than accounted for the various minor-swings in swing states on election…

Any Archie porn parody that doesn't have him bone Jughead or Reggie is essentially worthless.

Are you really saying that anyone who criticizes Booker for openly, repeatedly supporting the same school-privatization nonsense that Betsy DeVos is peddling and voting to deny poor Americans cheaper drugs (and just happens to take more money from drug companies than any other Democrat in Congress) is a purist?

Does the fact that these two actresses look nearly identical play a role in this?

Yeah, no. This is pseudo-intellectual babble from a hack who trades in empty superlatives and introductory-level film theory and this article was unbearable.

The Grammys have the same problems as every other awards show; the people voting have absolutely no idea what's going on outside of LA/New York and they reward what is considered "relevant" as opposed to what is substantively great. This article posits that because they aren't plugged in to what the internet's…

Or she, as someone who was raped early on in her career, really didn't know and scrapped everything relating to their collaboration after the allegations resurfaced and then went and advocated for survivors because she's a survivor herself. That might be it.