What did it for me is when progressives defended Daniel Ortega as he committed a blood bath in Nicaragua and accused those being murdered of being CIA operatives.
Bernie’s personality cult is nearly as obnoxious—and nearly as authoritarian—as Trump’s. (I actually lost friends to the Tara Reade debacle, for which they predictably fell, hook line and sinker.) It’s tough to watch them disappear down one unpopular, Democrat-damaging, democracy-damaging policy rabbit hole after another (masks forever, defund the police, Hamas is good ackchyually), and then wonder why their credibility is absolutely shot to bits. Must be the DNC! 🙄
Unlike a lot of pundits, I’m not terribly worried about this vocal-but-small contingent loudly withholding its votes from Biden. They were never exactly his fans in the first place, and there is no reasoning with the “burn it all down” mindset (reasonable people rarely have that mindset in the first place, as there’s NEVER a guarantee that something better will rise from the ashes). I believe that the persistently-high number of GOP primary voters who cast ballots against Trump are, for the most part, a much more gettable lot.
What did it for me is when progressives defended Daniel Ortega as he committed a blood bath in Nicaragua and accused those being murdered of being CIA operatives.
Bernie’s personality cult is nearly as obnoxious—and nearly as authoritarian—as Trump’s. (I actually lost friends to the Tara Reade debacle, for which they predictably fell, hook line and sinker.) It’s tough to watch them disappear down one unpopular, Democrat-damaging, democracy-damaging policy rabbit hole after another (masks forever, defund the police, Hamas is good ackchyually), and then wonder why their credibility is absolutely shot to bits. Must be the DNC! 🙄
Unlike a lot of pundits, I’m not terribly worried about this vocal-but-small contingent loudly withholding its votes from Biden. They were never exactly his fans in the first place, and there is no reasoning with the “burn it all down” mindset (reasonable people rarely have that mindset in the first place, as there’s NEVER a guarantee that something better will rise from the ashes). I believe that the persistently-high number of GOP primary voters who cast ballots against Trump are, for the most part, a much more gettable lot.
Spot on. Another great piece. Thank you.
I doubt Americans will ever accept fully left-of-center government. Most of the times when they had the opportunity to have it, it was spurned.