‘In the primary, vote with your heart. In the general…go with you head.’
Bernie Sanders
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The Ghost of Primaries Future
I started last week being ticked off at Bill Maher for his suggestion that members of the Democratic Party’s base are too obsessed with so-called “identity politics.” As part of his tirade, Maher mentioned Democrats lamenting perceived racism in sports–something that was remarkably tone-deaf in light of, well, racism in sports. Something tells me Adam […]
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The Argument Over Why Clinton Lost is Over. Bernie Was Right. Now What?
It has been a long, knock-down drag-out battle, but the ugly intramural conflict over why Clinton lost to Trump is finally over. New polls and focus groups conducted by Clinton’s own SuperPAC Priorities USA shows that while racism and sexism had some effect, the main driver of Trump’s victory was economic anxiety, after all. The […]
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The Case Against Single-Payer
Progressives have increasingly embraced the idea of “Medicare for All,” but a public option would more tangibly ameliorate our healthcare woes.
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Democratic Resolve in Georgia, Montana and Beyond
Ten years ago, then-Representative Martin Meehan (D-MA) resigned from the House to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Meehan’s Congressional seat had not been held by a non-Democrat since the early-1970s, and the prospects of the Republican Party capturing the seat in a special election seemed rather remote. However, Republicans did not shrug […]
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No Network Found: What Bernie and Bill Didn’t Discuss
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has long been one of the strongest voices for aggressive action on climate change on Capitol Hill, and Bill Nye has long been one of the strongest advocates for pro-science policy in the United States, so it was quite disappointing that their recent Facebook Live discussion about the need to take […]
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Trump Won the Revolt Vote, Not Sanders
And that has created as many problems for the GOP as for Democrats.
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The Camera Never Denies
Good on Mark Phillips of CBS News for his series this past week on the impact that human-caused climate change is having on our world. After years of US broadcast and cable entities downplaying and dismissing the importance of this issue, it was quite impressive to see Phillips and CBS report on the climate crisis […]
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A Big Freakin’ Deal in the DNC Chair Race
Did former Vice President Joe Biden just do a favor for Rep. Keith Ellison? Biden’s endorsement of former Labor Secretary Thomas Perez to become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee may have provided an unintentional boost to Ellison’s hopes to defeat Perez. Ellison’s backers have been promulgating the notion that Perez is an […]
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Not This Nonsense Again
You’d figure that the outcome of the 2016 presidential election–and the urgent need to resist Donald Trump by any political means available–would focus the mind of the Democratic Party, preventing party members from getting bogged down in the “establishment” vs. “outsider” fight that only serves to divide and destroy Democrats. You’d figure wrong, as the […]
