The irony is that AOC’s victory taught incumbent liberals a lesson, and they actually learned it. She rightfully caught Crowley asleep at the wheel. Now, incumbents look alive, tap their networks, campaign in their districts, in person. If you do all that competently, there is zero reason to fear a far left…

The issue is the inability of some of Sanders’s more die hard fans and campaign staff to recognize that others are also fighting for those things-- even if they aren’t in lockstep with Dear Leader. 

Especially when it starts becoming evident that a lot of their core voting group isn’t as down with that mentality and that there is a lot of work to be done in order to sell that message to them. At point getting aggressive towards those moderate voices starts becoming a problem, especially since a vast majority of…

Like, the Civil Rights Act wasn’t passed by sitting with arms folded and telling everyone to go fuck themselves. It was passed by LBJ making political deals.

If I recall correctly, a few years back there was a bit of an uproar about because when Pelosi was asked about the Squad, her response was that well they’re only four votes. It was seen as disrespectful, which was somewhat hilarious considering how the Squad had acted towards Pelosi, but I think something that was…

You do understand that we can be 100% in support of Sanders and his policies and vote that way, while simultaneously criticizing him and his supporters for valid reasons?

And a durable consensus.  As we’ve seen from what the Trump administration has been able to do the last 3 years, without it, even compromised progress is  unstable.

Also being able to work with your leadership is a good thing. Folks need to stop getting so worked up with this “burn it all down” mentality. Change takes thought and time. 

But it was the perfect bait for a certain subset of the online left that is—for whatever reason—eager for Ocasio-Cortez to reveal herself as a sellout.

What I got from this is that AOC is actually trying to figure out how best to push her agenda, even if that means playing ball with the centrists every so often. HOW DARE SHE!!!! Despite her outsized and frankly deserved influence in the political and particularly progressive scene, she seems to understand that she’s…

Bernie Sanders is like “Rick and Morty” -- the show’s quite good, but its fans are *very* tiresome.

You can believe she’s telling the truth and still acknowledge that this Putin shit hurts her credibility.

The problem is that she attempted to cover it up and then changed her story to some nonsense about writing a novel. 

I mean, the dirty old man/MeToo vulnerabilities have always been built into who Biden was going to be as a candidate. Aside from his age, it was those vulnerabilities that had me hoping that he’d never even consider running—and assuming that he would eventually flame out if he did.

Look, maybe Reade’s allegations are 100% accurate.

I was thoroughly opposed to having Biden as the candidate, but here we are. Honestly, I think voters know we’re electing a placeholder who won’t be capable of completing a four year term (which makes his VP choice more significant than ever).

Re: International media reticence-- I think that’s pretty heavily linked to some of the potentially problematic stuff Reade published which makes a potential ratfuck seem way, way more plausible than it did for say the Ford accusation. 

If this took place in 1993, I have to believe it would’ve shown up when the Obama team vetted Biden for VP.

Last year she said Biden “invaded her space” and stroked her hair, and she says he digitally penetrated her without consent. Meanwhile, her tweet praising Putin was role-playing theoretical poetry, or something.