Aren’t you performing precisely the type of “purity test” you’re arguing against in bringing up Sanders’ votes on other issues? Sanders was one of the people responsible for this bill, but you are using his past votes on other issues to justify fellow dems tanking this good bill, which had enough bipartisan support to…

Yes everyone is self delusional and bad except sugarpussoshea

Nobody freely offers up accountability. Constituents have to scream for it under threat of removing them from office. It’s not really up to republicans, but up to their constituents. If citizens dying as a direct result of this decision isn’t something that citizens can use to leverage their representatives, nothing…

Not generally, but there are a few supporters.

Sanders didn’t get the nomination (and is not a Democrat), so how is it a plus that she’s closer to Sanders?

So... so did most of the people grilling him, as they used the opportunity to suss out the edges of Trump’s plans by asking his cabinet appointments their commitment to specific aspects of his vague and various policy statements. That’s how it works?

Pretty much.

obviously ;)

Seems to be a running theme. But how actually widespread is this misapprehension? I feel like I’ve seen this same example many times, and just assumed this person represents a small minority of U.S. citizens... maybe not?

I can grow root vegetables, darn socks, and operate a Ham radio

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Well, sure, if you completely ignore her politics! Warren and Sanders are much closer than Warren and Clinton, from an ideological point of view. Warren has credibility taking on corporate capture of government. Clinton represented corporate capture of government to many people. Night and day.

You know that’s right-wing BS, right? Not that anyone could expect Trump to understand the complexity of NA heritage, but you should certainly stop repeating his false claim; she did not use her heritage to to get into Harvard, or gain any other advantage. The whole controversy stemmed from her acknowledge her…

I have a feeling it will come to be known as the Trump Trounce or something to that effect.

Laughing at the absurdity of it all with folks who agree with you is not a great way to convince people who disagree with you to come around to your perspective, but it certainly is a decent way to stay sane. If we’re going to endure this without going crazy, we need to be able to blow off steam in a way that isn’t…

You know, I actually believe he can keep that promise...

I fear she’d fare worse than HRC.

Oops! Autocorrect. Too late to edit.

That’s not mental gymnastics, that’s just failure at thought.

This isn’t a “purity test” it was a basic values test. He failed. Some republicans passed, and still Corey Booker and the rest of these pharma sell-outs failed.