They were talking about how we should really just not let Democrats in red states have any say in what candidate their own party nominates. For somebody who claims to have a little old black mother in Detroit, I would think you might be self-aware enough to understand why telling black people in Mississippi and South…

Let it never be said that Bernie Sanders is anything but a narcissistic sociopath. 

I’ll be sure to tell that to the families of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and...you know...all of the other people who were lynched and slaughtered over the course of the last 200 years to give those black people in those states some sense of democratic agency. Letting black people in the south vote…

In the very outside chance that Sanders won the nomination and the presidency, the reality is that there would still be virtually no chance that Democrats retook the senate. Even if they did retake the senate (which they wouldn’t), all that does is make Joe Manchin the most powerful member of the United States’…

This would seem to be an acknowledgement that support for Sanders is little more than a cult of personality more concerned with the advancement of its figurehead than it is with any of the principles, values or policies supporters generally claim to themselves and to others that it is about.

That’s a lot of words to respond to three paragraphs.

Yep.

To be fair to them: His net favorability polling is very strong, so if you’re the type of person who thinks that kind of polling is super useful in a vacuum, it would make sense that you might overlook the obvious just-under-the-surface reality that of course Clinton supporters resent Sanders.

She’s a Splinter alum (moreover, a latter-day Splinter alum), which is a distinction with a bit less prestige.

Those aren’t winner take all states. They’re just states that Sanders is so unpopular in that he can barely clear the line of viability. And no, it’s not a little funny that southern states with large black populations get counted in the primary. Nor would it be very funny if they weren’t.

Sanders supporters probably should have thought a little bit harder on whether supporting the guy that Democratic women probably still harbor a great deal of resentment toward for 2016 might have unintended (if easily predictable) consequences.

There’s probably something to that, but I suspect the larger issue is that Democratic women over 35 were Hillary Clinton voters, and they still by and large blame Sanders for 2016.

Literally the only reference there that would have any relevance to what I’m saying is the completely unfounded claim that President Obama sought to keep Biden from running. Everything else you cite is just candidates who were struggling to coexist on the same stage as Biden trying to manipulate what they perceived to…

I’m not going to write your process for you. Whatever you need to do to get yourself into the head space that allows you to actively and without reservation advocate on behalf of Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president, that’s what you need to do.

Joe Biden in the 2012 debates against Paul Ryan is not the same Joe Biden we have now.

Well, the way we start is by acknowledging among ourselves that it’s nonsense.

In what ways did they nudge him? Nobody’s suggesting he was the preferred candidate of the Democratic leadership at the outset of the campaign. For whatever reason you want to attribute it to, he’s always been prone to saying stuff that made no sense, and there was every reason to assume the creepy old man stuff would…

Is putting your hand on your heart a civic duty? Some people may like to portray it as such, but no. It is not. Doing jury duty is a civic duty. It sucks. Everybody hates it. But it actually serves a real and important purpose.

Here’s the reality: Joe Biden is Joe Biden. This is not a new development. This has always been baked into the cake of Joe Biden. The only differences now are that (a) he’s also very old and (b) broadly popular enough to actually win—and remain front and center for the duration.

Lots of bad arguments seem like they’re great arguments when you’re an adolescent.