The problem with that parallel is that when Trump got into the race, nobody was polling above 15 percent. The establishment “front runner” was Jeb Bush, and he topped out at like 15 percent.

The problem with that conclusion is that the math says that they probably won’t win even if the other loses—Warren is really the only one with an outside shot, but at this point, it is an outside shot. I’ll take your word for it on the generational demographic breakdown, but taking a more panoramic view, we’re still…

It’s amazing to me how the people who make this argument don’t understand that it is self-evidently nonsense.

It’s close enough to being 50:50 to make the distinction moot, but most white women vote Republican. Hillary Clinton lost the white woman vote to Donald Trump. Now, imagine what the results would have been if she hadn’t been running against like the worst misogynist and probable sexual predator the Republican Party…

Nobody asks that question (i.e., can one win?) of white men because we (full disclosure) are the only ones who ever do. And we do because we’re usually the only option, and when we’re not the only option, we’re almost always an option. Combine that with the fact that white women like to vote for white men, which is…

It’s time to stop thinking of them, even for comedic effect, as Mommy and Daddy. They are not partners. They are not a team. They are adversaries. They are opponents. Sanders supports don’t need to hate Elizabeth Warren, nor hers him, but if you haven’t stopped thinking “as long as it’s one of the two of them,” you’re…

I’m not saying there were good options. I’m saying the math is what the math is. Neither Sanders nor Warren were going to compete while the other was around. However, the heart attack, which occurred while Sanders was weak in the polls and Warren was near her strongest, was an obvious opportunity for Warren to have…

You’re barking up the wrong tree. I always said she was a way better candidate than Sanders. I just sometimes didn’t give her credit as a politician because she was sometimes too stubborn and risk averse for her own good.

I’m not sure there was an ideal way to do it, but don’t you think Warren missed an opportunity with the Sanders heart attack? I mean, Warren is all but coming out and saying that Sanders has electability problems (which he obviously does) but she’s waited until after he was saying it about her first.

Your resistance to the idea that the Politico report is accurate despite the fact that it still hasn’t been substantively disputed is curious to me. If the campaign told the volunteers to say the things outlined in the report, would that be a problem for you? Because it is relevant that they were given ample…

They aren’t denying that there was a comment and they deleted it, they are denying that it represented their position.

We end up with Biden because everybody else who could have been that moderate turned out to be really inept when it came to running for president. Or they were Pete Buttigieg. 

If they really didn’t why, when given the opportunity to comment on the story and deny the allegations, did the campaign choose instead to let the story run without comment or rebuke? Really, though, if you want to make believe we live in a world where politicians don’t behave like politicians, why would they let that…

Presuming for a moment that what Politico reported (and that the Sanders campaign neither commented on, nor denied the veracity of) was accurate, do you think that makes Sanders look bad? For me, it goes without saying that Warren doesn’t look great by this. She was caught flatfooted while pursuing a losing strategy…

Cable access is not a better analogy. In the context of celebrity, audience size matter more than user generated content.

Can you point me to the actual offense Sanders signed off on?

You are obviously trying to be insulting with your comparison and it just isn’t deserved.

Where do you get the word “sinister”? 

I’ve been called worse than an asshole. And yeah, I’m as guilty as any of us of relying too much on automatic spellcheckers. But yeah, it is very much like cable access, which is the original user-generated content.

That is not what I’m saying. I’m obviously not even saying people can’t get famous on YouTube, seeing as they objectively can. I’m saying I don’t fully understand the appeal behind rewarding and affirming other people’s naval-gazing self-importance. I mean, when I was in my 20s, it was the era of people writing and…