I’m going back on my moral commitment to not watch the NFL anymore because obviously Daniel Jones is a superstar stud and the New York Football Giants are going to the Super Bowl!!!!!

This is the preferred tactic of the non MAGA right. Jordan Peterson uses it as well.

Has it ever occurred to these people that Hillary might have just been lame and unlikable, regardless of her gender? I know there was plenty of sexist takes thrown her way, but a lot of her negatives (untrustworthy, lack of conviction, lack of authenticity) had nothing to do with her gender.

The problem with Jay Z as a spokesperson for social justice is that he is a capitalist at heart. He’s willing to have (incredibly important) conversations about police brutality and the need to reform how we police minority communities, but the conversation cannot end there.

These scandals are all rooted in the notion that our politicians must subscribe to a particular standard of personal morality. When honestly, excepting obvious pathology, it really should not matter.

“Mental health issue” is far too vague a term. It’s a way for people who oppose gun control to seem insightful when they are really just being reductionist.

Interesting to see who the real “cultural Marxists” are.

Why don’t we ask ourselves why there are more guns than people in this country? Why do Americans love guns and why do Americans, particularly white American males, have such an affinity for massacring their fellow citizens in public?

Hillary (who I reluctantly voted for) was not viewed as too extreme. She was viewed as corrupt, untrustworthy, and inauthentic. Most of the Republican talking points against her centered not on her ideology, but on her lack of character and conviction. Sadly, I cannot blame them for this strategy and it worked.

My point was that, regardless of the relevancy of early polls, and I agree with you they should be taken with a grain of salt, the support Bernie and Liz have garnered is significant enough that “fringe” is an unfair label. Perhaps we have different definitions of the word.

Yes, let’s continue to appease, at the expense of everyone else in the country, the noble, self reliant midwestern white man who votes against his own self interest.

The only two candidates polling above 10% last night were “fringe left.” Most polls have Bernie and Warren at 15-20% each. That’s 30-40% of the democratic primary base. Far from fringe.

They (the moderate democrats on stage last night) are playing off a cultural rather than a functional idea of unions. See Ryan’s comments about people who “shower after work..” The idea that the union voter is exclusively a conservative white patriarch who works with his hands. Someone who would not trust a “radical”…

There is no way Mayor Pete can “ether” Trump’s support among evangelicals with his lilting platitudes about inclusive Christianity.

If we want to push a more socialist agenda (I do), we need a narrative that goes beyond “it makes obvious moral sense/those who disagree are monsters.” (not that I don’t have sympathy with this way of thinking).

Any arguments claiming that Warren has a better chance of implementing policy than Sanders need to explain how this gets done given the current make up of the Senate.Even if Democrats managed a majority, McConnell would just do the same thing he did under Obama and moderate Democrats would cower.

I misread your point about Harris. Also I should not have pluralized polls for Bernie in the 20's. It’s just that one.

Which polls?

You are basing the “steady march towards Harris” on one debate. Wait for the new polls. Wait for the polls in a month. I think you overestimate the impact of one performance, as strong as it was.

I think Bernie really values the opportunity continue to do the work that he can do the in senate, regardless of the outcome of this primary or the last one. He always has the specter of pariah looming over him and he is afraid to really take it to his democratic opponents because of that.