Forgetting for a moment that it came down to a couple tight states, and that Clinton won the popular vote despite not being particularly liked (fairly or unfairly, not that it matters at this point) by a large chunk of the country. Just enough people in the right places during a low turnout cycle said “fuck it” and…

It isn’t true that it was always intended to be a democratic process. Actually, it is far more democratic now than it ever was. The Parties exerted much more control in the past, and Party leaders originally just sat in a room and decided, with zero outside input (not necessarily zero consideration of outside…

The primary was never designed or intended to be a democratic process. That is not its purpose now and never has been.

Biden wasn’t my 1st (or even 4th) choice, but to say he’s done nothing to further social progress is just bullshit. He’s directly responsible for forcing the Obama administration’s shift on gay marriage, and he had a direct hand in helping get Obamacare through congress.

Look, I didn’t vote for Joe Biden. Our “status quo” is a 24/7 psychodrama of one man’s cruelty and mendacity that no one can escape. Biden is not a rocketship to Scandinavia but smearing him with the “status quo” thing pretends there’s a status quo to maintain anymore.

Picking Biden removes the #1 attack that will be waged by Republicans:

The fact that a lot of his supporters want to tear down the party if they can’t have him as the nominee is telling. Tearing down the DNC only helps the Republicans. Also, I’m skeptical of any group that wants to tear something down instead of building bridges and coalitions. If they really cared about furthering their…

Disgusting? How do you think Biden won? Politics is a fucking game of power. You don’t win by pissing everyone off. Regardless of how you feel about Bernie’s or Biden’s respective policies, he wouldn’t play the game and for better or worse, that did him in.

who only even became VP (and thus only had the inside track on this nomination) because Obama thought the country was so racist that he needed an old white guy standing by his side to chill everyone out

I’m familiar, which is why I pointed out the fact that there were down ballot races in some states since March 17 (Illinois and Wisconsin being the two that come to mind). But unless the argument is that he stayed in because he wanted to drive up Democratic turnout in WI for reasons other than earning himself…

The courts are quite political. Why do you think Mitch McConnell has done everything he can to morph them into a branch of the Federalist Society? If gay marriage were working its way through the current federal circuit courts, we’d probably see some very different outcomes. The Ninth Circuit has been taken over by…

I think it’s a mistake to characterize this as a “purity” issue. Certain Bernie supporters prefer to frame this as a matter of ideology alone, because that fuels their argument that anyone who doesn’t nobly support Bernie is a sell-out. It’s not about purity, it’s about Bernie’s role as a bomb-thrower. Which is fine…

Bernie would’ve needed 2/3 of the remaining delegates, which is impossible for him to actually get.

Again, the administration had a role to play in the courts, and in ruling after ruling and law after law, the Obama DOJ stopped defending those laws on behalf of the State. By 2013, after Obama had been pushed by Biden to take a position in support of gay marriage, the administration was actively appealing to the…

He had less than a one in 100 chance of winning the nomination a month ago. He won like four states not including his home state, and every state he won (except Vermont), he had a 30-35 point ceiling. In states he lost, he had a 20-point floor.

Ultimately, it was decided in the courts, but part of that journey involved the administration instructing the DOJ to stop defending laws like DOMA in the courts, and Biden was the first and highest ranking member of that or any administration to publicly endorse the concept of same sex marriage (all but forcing the…

Exactly.

This actually hits on something that has driven me nuts about a lot of Bernie leaning news blogs and institutions. And I don’t mean to isolate Jezebel with this is as it is a wider things. There’s no real, genuine criticism about Bernie’s choices and what led to this. While I do think there is a great deal to laud for…

It’s good that he’s finally getting out. I’m not sure why he waited until after Wisconsin voters were forced to stand in line during a pandemic primary or, for that matter, the voters of the St. Patrick’s Day primaries. I mean, it’s not like he and Biden have been actively campaigning for the last two or three weeks—wh…

Many still unfairly hold Sanders accountable for Clinton’s defeat in 2016, and his tendency to avoid certain niceties—singing the Democratic party’s praises, buttering up the press—made him an abrasive figure for some.