Also this part: All these people—from the consultants to Elizabeth Warren and her little clique of Senators— have a game plan they want to run everywhere, and admitting they fucked up here would've been a set back they couldn't afford.
Hence those folks all scrambling last week to save him.
Again.
Not sure I follow the reference? Who Are You came out a month earlier!
Oh definitely, the fact that even beyond rallies Bernie and Warren never get off the ride gives lots of Dem Voter types plausible deniability (but of course they don’t really work as validators for a general election)
Ahhh, I was focusing on the idea it would’ve been because the Who were embarrassing themselves rather than events being, say, actually sad
I’d say it’s mostly once his campaign sufficiently worked the Times/the sympathetic Times reporters spun their story to say domestic violence wasn’t domestic violence everyone just ran the same old playbook from October with his supporters gaslighting everyone and other Dems looking the other way
always a little embarrassing when a Jewish person posts the most rancid anti-semitic piece of writing imaginable and is like 'powerful.' work out your internalized guilt in private, please.
As does, of course no other Dem validators ever come out and just say “No,” it’s always couched in “That’s up to Maine” or whatever rather than any actual case
No no the guy who’s quit everything in his life except killing people to the point his mom had to buy him a business and his dad had to buy him a house and who’s flitted from extreme to extreme ideology will totally he a normal and stable Senator who doesn’t screw you over
Winning by 50 against Governor Suspended Her Campaign and Random McRandomface—when you’re still spending millions of dollars and calling in last minute favors just for the primary—REALLY doesn’t tell us very much.