But here’s the thing: the Dems calculus was correct. Progressive voters DIDN’T turn out in droves during the midterms and, hell, even during the presidential election.

I am one of the aforementioned wypipo and was delighted to discover the word.

They’re unpleasant in every article. Nobody has time to give a fuck about them.

Yet I’d be willing to bet this supposed arbiter of good taste has several Jon McNaughton paintings hanging in his house...

Meh. Fuggem.

Oh the greys are going to be unpleasant on this article.

Seriously. How many times between the signing of the Civil Rights Act and Obama has the Democratic Party actually gotten its gonads out of the shrinkwrap and swung for the fences to achieve positive change and do what is best in the interest of the governed in spite of political consequences?

Haha I legit tell people that in HS we would talk about politics like most people nowadays talk about real housewives.

Fairfax Co. represent!

Totally. I’m progressive but a pragmatist/realist*, so I’ve been getting frustrated a lot lately with people I fundamentally agree with who I also think are being short-sighted & self-defeating in their reactions/interactions w/ “Establishment.” People who started paying attention to the Tea Partiers and don’t realize…

It’s just like how Democrats, Clinton voters, PoC, and women have been calling for investigations into Trump and protesting his policies but it’s “Maverick” McCain who’s getting the hero label despite having voted 100% in line with Trump.

There’s a non-zero subset of voters who went for Trump now trying to hide under the “I got bamboozled feel sorry for me!” group that are currently very upset about this.

Maybe the Democrat’s next campaign slogan should simply be, “Told You So ...”

That is an interesting way to view it. To my way of thinking when they take of the uniform the no longer have the false authority, but they should still have the training, which should mean they have to be even better at deescalating any situation. The idea that it makes them “othered” and part of the masses who have…

So, in other words, they’ll make some cosmetic changes, call it a “repeal and replace”, and the idiots who vote for them will forever be confident that they got rid of the horrible Obamacare and replaced it with the wonderful whatever nearly identical thing the Republicans will pretend is something else.

Boehner can go suck on a Ken Bone. (Even my spell check says the correct word is “boner”)

I worry about that. Where does that come from? Yes, there is an argument that the stories we tell have that effect. Enough Jason Bourne or James Bond films and everyone thinks they can be the hero. But surely we export that to every other country, right? So why do we go alpha male and they see it as entertainment?

No, I understood, and I didn’t mean it as an attack on you. I am agreeing that at a bare minimum he should be held to the standards of any other weapon permit owning person.

These incidents point to a greater need to retool pre-employment screenings for police officers.

As to your point about the NRA, this information collected by the Pew Research Center supports it:

“In fact, across a number of gun-related questions, officers who have fired their weapon while on duty are less likely to…