The Revolution That Didn’t Come
The Democratic Party has demonstrated that it is not the Republican Party in search of a freak flag to fly. Saved by a 55/45 party. For now.
Tagged: Sanders
About Last Night: Democratic Debate Live From Las Vegas
Welp, we finally got a debate with some actual debating instead of the soundbite snoozefests that have become the norm in campaign 2020.
About Last Night: Democratic Debate in LA Edition
The latest, and mercifully the last, Democratic Debate for 2019 is in the books. Let’s talk about it.
A Dozen Democrats Debate
There were not any huge fireworks from this one, so the fair question to ask outside the breakdown is, “Is anything going to be different tomorrow?”
Choose Your Own Political Narrative: Iowa State Fair Edition
Over the weekend, most of the Democratic hopefuls took their turn on the “soap box” at the Iowa State fair, which brought “pulse of the people” interviews.
Democratic Debates: The Moderates Strike Back
The problem with the two night debate format is with the front runner in second night, most of what happened here will be forgotten about come tomorrow evening.
The Case for Bernie Sanders
Symposium: The Sanders’ candidacy (and hopefully, eventual presidency) is an important step re-situating the Democratic Party as one built around the needs of working people and as a bulwark against right-wing populism.
Bernie Sanders vs Bernie Sanders for President 2020
“It’s like RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN”
Joe Biden vs The Field
There are three tiers of presidential hopefuls right now: three Senators fighting for second place, the rest of the mess much lower, and Joe Biden all alone with a healthy lead.
They Won’t have Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Kick Around Anymore
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been a constant lightening rod in an administration that happily calls down the media thunder.
The Trade and Immigration Views of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are Basically Trump’s
I hope the future of the Democratic party looks more like this than like a nicer, kinder rehash of Trump’s broken agenda.
The Revolution Will be Televised on Fox News After All
Any way you look at it, Sanders going rogue on Fox was a success
Bern Notice
Like it or not, the front runner for the Democratic 2020 nomination as it stands right now, today, in the year of our Lord 2019, is Bernie Sanders.
Linky Friday: Candidate Confab
Let’s check in on the (mostly) running candidates for the Democratic Nomination in 2020
Ordinary World 4Mar19
Your Ordinary World for 4Mar19 in which we check in on the runners, participants in the ever growing 2020 Democratic Primary for President
The League vs Trump – Super Doomsday Open Thread and Twitter List
If we need a clearer definition of our mission – as I think we do – we could do worse for a starting point than “Negation of Trump,” but that thought also implies that it’s significantly our fault that Trumpism is on the verge of taking over the universe…
Joel Kotkin: We Now Join the U.S. Class War Already in Progress – The Daily Beast
We are now experiencing a growth in class-based politics not seen since the New Deal. During the long period of generally sustained prosperity from the ’50s to 2007, class issues remained, but were increasingly subsumed...
Two Prominent Black Intellectuals Just Delivered More Bad News for Clinton | Mother Jones
Coates and Alexander are by no means the first black intellectuals to express skepticism of Clinton and endorse Sanders. Princeton University professor Cornel West, for example, has campaigned with Sanders. On Wednesday morning, Sanders...
Only the Right Believes in Class Conflict Anymore
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren may still keep alive the embers of Old Left workerism, and the latter is still barely detectable in traditional Democratic Party rhetoric and residual connections to organized labor, but in American politics today class conflict as the engine of history seems now to be a concept mainly of the Right.
