So even assuming that your description of Reese’s ambivalence about Harris’s nomination is accurate, a “total lack of enthusiasm” isn’t the same as “total rejection.” In fact, given your own explanation that “any responsible national leader” can be expected to “disappoint any given voter a lot of the time,” a “total la…

You can be excited about whoever you want. I opened my comment with “I’m not going to begrudge anyone their excitement about Harris’s selection,” and I meant it. Particularly black women who are the backbone of the Democratic party and yet have been as mistreated by it as any other group. No one needs my permission to…

It is nonsense to honestly discuss the flaws in a candidate’s record that raise concerns about how they’ll govern? That is something, in a democracy, you want people to not do?

How does calling Biden out for a crime bill from a quarter-century ago help keep Trump out of office? How does calling Harris out for how she enforced school truancy policies keep Trump out of office?

then trashing them as a traitor.

I’m not sure what you mean when you say “this nonsense” or how whatever “this nonsense” is led to 2000, 2004, and 2016.

Yes. I wouldn’t begrudge anyone their excitement over Harris’s selection. I think representation genuinely matters and is important. Also, from a purely political standpoint, she’s a great pick.

I, for one, am comfortable with the “damaging precedent” of prosecuting criminals who commit crimes and not treating them differently because of the title they happened to hold when they committed those crimes.  This silly idea that ex-presidents and other members of previous administrations or whatever should not…

I like Seinfeld plenty, because I’m half-white, but someday someone should write a think piece about the undercurrent of a very conservative worldview reflected in the weird, shallow, Boomer gripes and grievances that made up so much of the show.

The 52 percent isn’t “a lie.” Exit polls showed that number. It is probably the case that the percentage of white women who voted for Trump is slightly less than that, as more robust, careful analysis has showed (notably, according to your article, discrepancies between exit polling and later analysis is much greater…

ok

So, read what I quoted from the article again. The relatively few people this seems to be affecting ARE NOT going out.

Fair enough! You surely know the intricacies of the criminal justice system far better than I do. I have nothing but respect for public defenders, by the way.

I’m a former public defender and in my state the prosecutors have all the discretion - judges cannot dismiss charges even if they think they’re bullshit.

The OP is just parroting misleading Fox News and Federalist talking points.  Harris said she believed the accusers who came out last year, i.e. the various women who described Biden as having been, for lack of a better term, inappropriately affectionate with them.  As far as I can tell, Biden never specifically denied…

I’m not sure what your point is exactly, but one thing I’ll note is that judges can absolutely toss out charges. Also, governors have power to change how the criminal justice system operates. Legislators can be part of that process. You don’t have to participate in, and directly oversee, the day-to-day machinery of…

Novels on Bernie? No I have not. The discussion you are referencing you said, wrongly, that Sanders had not committed to placing women in positions of power like Biden had, and I pointed out, in one sentence, that Sanders had in fact committed to having half his cabinet be women. The rest of the discussion was not…

So you took some fairly mild criticism of Harris’s documented record, distorted it into me saying she is a “fascist,” equivalent to a “corrupt murderous cop,” and yet I’M the one whose riding “that purity pony”? I think not my friend!

AG is a common way to get into politics. But the price for that particular path of serving your ambition are the people ground into dust by the criminal justice machine you help move along. There are other paths to a political career. She made a choice to springboard her career on the backs of all the people that get…

Define how she was “utterly unqualified”? What makes her any more or less “qualified” than anyone else?