It would have been the wisest course because I think this whole thing is ultimately going to hurt her campaign more than his.

Dude, really?

This isn’t a game of “would you rather?” I’m not describing what I would rather he do. I’m describing what he should have done and why he should have done it--and how his decision to do what he’s done instead was really, really stupid. 

On the one hand, there’s a slight pang of loss knowing it won’t be back. On the other, this was the right decision. We don’t need to know what happens after Angela put her foot in the water—especially given that the natural narrative progression they would have followed is she falls in and then spends too much of the…

This is not the media. This is the campaigns finally engaging on one another. When Sanders chose to change the language his volunteers used with regard to Warren in the lead up to the votes, it was a calculated decision. It was a newsworthy decision. Politico was right to report on it. When Warren sent her people out…

This isn’t dishonesty. This is the objectivity of emotional detachment. Most of the people arguing here are emotionally invested in one of these two candidates. I’m far too cynical for that kind of bullshit.

Why would that be the best or wisest course of action, though? It would obviously be the one the more directly benefits Sanders most, but that’s the opposite of the intended effect.

Putting aside whether there would have been anything to gain back then from either of them saying that Sanders had told her that he didn’t think a woman could win or that either discouraged the other in any way (there would not have been, so there’s no reason to take the claim at face value), I think dissuade is…

No criticism is off limits. I’m explaining what happened to people who are upset about what happened. I think it was a solidly clever plan by the Sanders team that got screwed up in execution because the whole point of it was that it remain secret enough not to invite retaliation. Well...she retaliated. 

He’s going to coast to the nomination because Sanders has a low ceiling when going up against Biden and Warren, who has a higher ceiling, spent far too much of her time running a nearly identical campaign to the guy with the low ceiling to expand her base of support into the other guy’s wheelhouse.

Again, I am not criticizing the decision to do it, but that’s literally what it is. You have to remember the rules of the Iowa caucus. If you fall beneath the line of viability, which is 15 percent of the vote (precinct by precinct), your candidacy in the Iowa caucus (at least for that precinct) is forfeited. Once…

CNN is “doing it” because Warren had staffers leak the story to CNN. And she did that because Sanders tried to destroy her campaign when it was at its most vulnerable right before the voting started. Furthermore, they’re talking about it because Sanders is too dumb to see how lying about it is how you keep the story…

I’m not mad at all.

It’s subtext. Warren is running as a populist. The argument in this case is that this populist woman of the people attracts progressives, but mainly those who are older and more educated (which you can also read as “more moneyed”). The notion that you are who your supporters are is an idea that Warren and Sanders…

Really, really easily.

People are dumb. People are biased. They’re going to interpret the world in dumb and biased ways. I understand why Warren and her supporters think Sanders betrayed her when she was at her most vulnerable. I understand why Sanders and his people feel like they’re the real victims in all of this.

And yet Bernie Sanders still can’t figure out a way to respond to a modestly unflattering account from a conversation from two years prior without implying that a woman was lying about him—signalling to his theoretically better base of supporters that it was time to get super self-destructive online, which is exactly…

I think he did say it, but in the admittedly plausible scenario that he didn’t say it, yes, he should have lied and said he did. Of course he should’ve lied. Never forget that the politician you support is a politician and that every politician tells useful lies all the time, especially while campaigning.

I’m not a supporter of any of these candidates. They are all categorically flawed. I will actively support and vote for whichever one wins the nomination, but my “support” at this point is moot. I vote after Super Tuesday, by which point Biden will probably have a commanding delegate lead in part because Sanders and…

A look to my Twitter feed would suggest that those positive adjustments were...baby steps.