The reality is that you can list any number of theoretically impeachable offenses, it took the whistleblower complaint for there to even be broad Democratic support of impeachment.

Impeachment was always going to end in acquittal, and an acquittal was always going to offer the president the cover of claiming exoneration, which was always going to be helpful to his reelection effort. This was always how it was going to end. As for hurting Biden, I’m not sure how you’re reasonably going to lay…

They’re not exactly hating on her as they are expressing disappointment/disapproval of her for implicitly selling out to the establishment...or something. 

The people being critical of Omar in her feed for being implicitly supportive/praising Pelosi.

Once the decision was made to impeach the president, the question was always about how the Democrats (and the Democratic voters) would react to the inevitable acquittal, which was destined to suck the oxygen out of the early primaries and become a central focal point of the general election (i.e., the president’s…

They blame Pelosi for the ultimate failure of the impeachment trial. They blame her for knowing this is where it would end up and that this is not the ideal place to be. 

Well sure, Sanders has the old college professor with tenure vibe, and his supporters generally have the iconoclastic undergrad who is drawn to the old man who says whatever he wants because the administration can’t touch him vibe.

I’ve seen many, many elections. And lots more primaries. I have to admit that this is the first time I’ve ever seen one where they didn’t announce any meaningful returns until 20 hours later, at which point they released 62 percent.

I see absolutely no value in releasing the partial results. Say Buttigieg’s delegate lead holds, Sanders supporters will doubt legitimacy of the results or complain about how the caucuses are objectively undemocratic. But say Sanders pulls ahead in the delegate count and everything is more or less where we thought it…

Buttigieg didn’t declare victory. He said he thought that they would be victorious once the final numbers were reported. You can view that as a distinction without a difference. That’s your prerogative. However, per the Sanders campaign, Bernie Sanders gave effectively the same speech he had planned to give in the…

Well yeah, you are assuming that these people are qualified, but I think that’s a safe assumption. Sanders has been through this before, and Buttigieg has a lot of Obama people on staff.

Strictly speaking, 85.9 percent is 141.5 percent of 60.7 percent, so it’s a 41.5 percent increase even though it’s only 25.2 percent out of the 100 percent whole.

Given the way caucuses work and how they must have conducted this internal polling another possibility is that neither campaign has internal polling that approaches reality.

I know these things only really get attention every few years and it’s easy to forget what is or is not normal, but literally the only thing out of the ordinary here is the fact that the state party so thoroughly failed.

I went to sleep last night before it was apparent how much of a disaster this thing was going to become.

I wouldn’t have even thought that there was any question about whether it was vegan. The grill thing, in my mind, means its not vegetarian. There are surely half a dozen other ways the thing isn’t strictly vegan.

So I went to sleep at like 9:30 eastern last night. Did I miss anything?

I want a fucking revolution. I want Warren’s wealth tax, and the top 1%’s sweet, sweet money (to pay for healthcare, college education, and welfare programs). I want free immigration, and anyone that wants to come help make America actually fucking great again (after these bullshit Trump years) to come help fix this…

I think it’s easy to dismiss it as just being “selfish.” Or to treat that unnecessarily as a pejorative. Everybody makes selfish decisions. We cannot approach politics in any realistic sense by saying that what we need to do is convince people to be selfless.

It has nothing to do with what I “want.” And personally, I would love for progressives to begin to take on a more productively collaborative role in the future of the party. The problem is that too often progressives can’t be in the same room with a moderate Democrat for more than five minutes without trying to kick…