The past few days have been absolutely fucking nuts. Donald Trump promised to defund Social Security and Medicare if reelected, accelerated his work to destroy the U.S. Postal Service in advance of the 2020 election, and once again claimed wrongly that it was him, and not Barack Obama, who signed “Vetrans Choice” into law. Oh […]
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Earlier this week, as you can read in the above Twitter post, the Democratic Socialists of America announced that they would not be following in the footsteps of progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and endorsing Joe Biden for President. Well, this didn’t exactly sit well with some members of the old left. And, […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1919, 2020, Alan Haber, comrades, Democratic Socialists of America, Donald Trump, fascism, Hitler, Joe Biden, League for Industrial Democracy, Max Weber, New Left, old left, Presidential politics, SDS, Socialism, Students for a Democratic Society, threats to Democracy |
Seven states are holding primaries today. And Michigan, with 147 delegates – 125 of which will be allocated on the basis of today’s primary vote – is the biggest prize. So what you do in the voting booth, my fellow Michiganders, is going to be incredibly important. Given that Sanders has apparently ceded the south […]
Before I jump into this, there are a few items I’d like to make clear upfront…. First, I truly believe that any candidate still standing in the Democratic field would be a dramatic improvement over Donald Trump, and I intend to support whomever it is that comes out of the convention with the nomination. My […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, 2020, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Bros, coalition building, conspiracy theories, Dan Pfeifer, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party, democratic primary, dirtbag left, DNC, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Ezra Klein, get out the vote, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Latino voters, low-propensity voters, Marianne Williamson, Michael Bloomberg, Nathan J Robinson, Pete Buttigieg, Presidential politics, primary elections, rigged elections, Shaun King, South Carolina, Super Tuesday, swing states, the black vote, voter turnout |
