See...this is a campaign. If you’re going to punch somebody who considered you an ally when they are at their weakest, don’t act shocked when they respond by hitting you with a 2x4. Don’t criticize them for being unwilling to accept constructive criticism designed to end their campaign.

And herein lies the flaw of the “My people will only vote for me” strategy toward electability. The more you and your supporters say it, the less electable you become. The faithful don’t take well to being extorted. 

Well, they’re just as dumb as the people on Warren’s campaign who were caught off guard when Sanders began to try to covertly undermine her support by calling her a tool of the elite. Did they think she would respond to that by simply saying, “I respect Bernie’s opinion”?

You’re overlooking the fact that over the last week or two, the Sanders campaign began to circulate talking points across early voting states that instructed phone and canvasing volunteers to portray Warren as a candidate of the elite. So while it’s obvious that timing and Warren’s polling are a part of what’s going…

There are lies and there are stories that turn out to be untrue. This had a bit of both, and I’m not going to tell you what to think about it. My point is that whatever you think about that can be true while at the same time it is also true that Sanders is screwing this up.

I understand the argument. I’m saying the faith those without faith have in the faithful is...probably misplaced.

I’m not going to tell you whether to believe that or not. Believe it. I’ve said several times before all of this that Warren’s biggest flaws as a candidate are (a) that she has questionable political instincts (partly demonstrated by her handling of the Native American story) and (b) that because of the Native…

In short: He’s an idiot. A politician who, like any other, lies all the time, but who can’t bring himself to tell a lie that builds other people up. It’s not like saying you believe Elizabeth Warren or Amy Klobuchar or Joe Biden would be great presidents is going to change anybody’s understanding that you’re still…

Your argument that Biden is a worse candidate is not convincing. I mean, to be clear, I don’t think any of the candidates left are particularly strong candidates. They all have really glaring weaknesses. But the assumption that either Warren or Sanders are stronger candidates seems to function on the magical thinking…

I’m not sure “insidious” is a useful term here. 

Furthermore, the Bros reaction to all of this conveniently ignores that Warren waited until Sanders covertly turned on her to ever so much as imply a negative word about him. If we’re talking about things in the language of back-stabbing, maybe Bernie Sanders shouldn’t have allowed his campaign to circulate a…

It is more relaxed. And the truth is that most of my exposure to Fry’s tenure is in shortened highlight clips as opposed to the whole show. But maybe I’m biased in favor of Fry because of all of the Fry related stuff I’ve loved for the last 25 years.

It’s impossible to know what was said at the meeting, which was a private one; both clearly believe their version of events.

It’s probably not as good with her as it was with Fry, but she does admirably well. 

Interesting trivia about Sandi Toksvig is that she is a Dane who spent her formative years in the US but who came to Britain during adolescence, and her British accent is a total affectation that she adopted to fit in.

See...he pivoted on her first. She’s at the edge of viability in Iowa, and over the last week, he began to send volunteers out canvasing and making calls to say that she was a candidate of the elite. The only reason to do that is because you see that she’s weak and you want to push her out, and given that she’s never…

He’s running because he convinced himself somewhere in the spring of 2016 that he might actually win. He didn’t want her to run before because he thought she’d win. He wanted her to run as a female foil to the establishment woman that was running in the hopes that a progressive challenger would move the party platform…

Yeah. What’s most striking about this to me is that it seems to underscore how poorly prepared Sanders is to face an actual political attack. This whole “I’m not sure a woman can win” scandal should have been the easiest thing in the world to sidestep while incurring minimal damage.

That’s a fun story. What’s actually happening is a lot simpler than that. But you’re right that timing is central to this. Here’s the timeline:

To be clear, I agree that the vote probably could have been split. But not by any of the candidates remaining in the race. I think progressives undersell the attraction to a Pete Buttigieg, but let’s not oversell it either.