Kasich can go out and recruit anti-Trump Republicans on his own time. Biden and DNC do not need to endorse (or appear to be endorsing) his anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-LGBT, anti-worker views by inviting him to speak at the convention.

Then, I guess, Biden doesn’t need progressives to show up to vote for him?  Is that the point here?

Liberals should show up and vote for Biden. Biden and the DNC should also not do shit, like asking fucking John Kasich to speak at the convention, that could alienate the progressive wing of the party.  Probably not a good idea to signal to progressives that their vote isn’t really that important!

And yet, if Biden loses in November, they will blame progressives for it, even though they pull shit like this.

What point do you think you’re making?

If he is the most progressive president in history, it is only because the country will have moved so far left since Obama was elected 12 years ago and Clinton was elected 28 years ago. He will almost certainly remain what he has been his entire career—a center-left corporate-friendly neoliberal moderate, who thinks…

There are a number of ways the federal government can leverage its power to get states to do things like reduce funding for police.  There’s a reason the drinking age is 21 across the country, and it’s not because every state’s citizens thinks it should be.

That and the fact that he’s not a woman or a minority, each of whom are typically viewed as more liberal than they are. After all, Hillary Clinton, a dyed-in-the-wool moderate whose resume was as disappointing to progressives in almost all the same ways that Biden’s is (supported the ‘94 crime bill, supported that…

No. Whatever you think about the merits of “spirit animal” being offensive or cultural appropriation or whatever, if someone in your employ tells you they have concerns that it is, and your instinct is to “yell at” them, you aren’t really fit to manage people, except maybe that sort of management style might be…

Okay, but what you said was “the world will just simply rationalize to the end of time why it’s ok to be antisemitic, no matter your race, but it’s awful to be racist to anyone else,” which is a weird assertion to make in an article describing someone getting swiftly canned over their anti-semitism. I’m not sure how…

I mean, Nick Cannon got fired, so....I think there are people who recognize that antisemitism is wrong and bad and that pushing back against antisemitism is a critical part of being anti-racist. 

No, what’s dumb to be mad about is someone just raising those issues.  An employee shouldn’t get reprimanded for that.

Then you shouldn’t be anywhere near a position managing anything except a KKK group. You can agree or disagree that there is anything problematic with using the term “spirit animal,” but I don’t think someone raising that issue ought to be met with a reprimand. Reprimanding someone for raising something like that is…

I don’t think it’s anyone’s criticism of that letter that its signatories represent a homogenous political view, and it certainly isn’t mine. (For one example, I’m pretty sure Margaret Atwood, in the midst of J.K. Rowling’s extended TERF meltdown, tweeted out an affirmation of trans rights that was pretty clearly…

Fair!

Well, I know Bari Weiss would never defend Nick Cannon here, because Cannon is being clearly anti-Semitic, and Weiss thinks anyone who can be connected to anti-Semitism deserves to be shamed and driven from the public square (and to Weiss, anti-Semitism includes any strident criticism of Israel).

This is is cancel culture, right? Bari Weiss, J.K. Rowling, and all the other Harper’s letter signatories are going to rally to Nick’s defense, and slam Viacom for shutting down opposing viewpoints and short circuiting the marketplace of ideas, right?

It’s grisly, but the victims’ families at least have an understandable reason for wanting to be there. After all, that is who the execution is supposed to be for (Barr, in arguing that this execution needed to go forward, said the victims’ families deserved it...the very families trying to get the execution delayed).…

I didn’t think I could still be surprised by the pointless, vengeful bloodlust that fuels the continued existence of the death penalty in America, but I gotta say refusing to delay the execution of an inmate, over the wishes of the family of the victims (who are the people with the most understandable desire for…

“[President Trump] says that he believes that the Native American community would be very angry at this.”