Democratic (Party) Direction

Loomis on that piece: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/05/just-win-baby

No, the leftist candidate in 2020 needs to be someone else. Elizabeth Warren is fairly obvious the best choice as she probably would unite the party like no other. Keith Ellison would be a fascinating candidate. Perhaps more likely would be the left getting behind someone like Kirsten Gillibrand running a really progressive campaign. The great fear of course would be the left settling on someone else, calling Gillibrand a hopeless neoliberal, and we relive 2016 all over again, even after seeing 4 years of Trump. In fact, I don’t think there’s much evidence that won’t happen, especially if the left doesn’t take Adler-Bell’s advice to heart. The movement has to be big, it has to unite a lot of different kinds of people, and it can’t primarily about making sure you are happy with a candidate’s purity.

The great fear of course would be the left settling on someone else, calling Gillibrand a hopeless neoliberal, and we relive 2016 all over again, even after seeing 4 years of Trump.

this is obviously exactly what's going to happen

Increasingly I see no other choice but Warren.

warren is perfect

she's gonna be like 71

and?

warren is perfect

far from it, but there are no workable alternatives I can spot

she's one of those people who seems way younger than her age though. a john stamos or mbah gotho type. xp

i'm holding out for oprah

maybe i'll run

buncha noise about Biden this week

joe biden is like nine hundred years old

exactly

biden doesn't seem like a guy who particularly wants to be president tbh

Won't Warren be in her 70s? <3 EW but maybe the Democrats should spend the next couple of years finding someone not eligible for Social Security to run against 76-year old Trump.

making sure you are happy with a candidate’s purity.

GUESS WHAT NOUN I WANT TO BAN

Christ Almighty

@samknight1

.@EvanMcS asks @NancyPelosi if single payer should be a Democratic Party platform in 2018.

"No," she says, without missing a beat

@Atrios
medicaid expansion was the best thing in obamacare. all of its proponents know this. they need to say it.

the coverage regulations are also good but the "exchanges" are garbage and the law was sold on the exchanges

the noun you want to ban is "Democratic Party"

what do I win

"it can’t primarily [be] about making sure you are happy with a candidate’s purity." =

"We're going to nominate Booker or Cuomo, commies, so smarten up"

you've read a lot of Erik Loomis I can tell

Tbf to morbs, it's hard to feel anything but loathing for a party that couldn't defeat a Cronenbergian carnival barker

lost to him by -2,868,691 votes

But he is a demented swamp creature

Who only managed to beat 16 other Republican primary candidates, who thought he had a chance? It is a mystery.

If I had a dollar for every Democrat I've seen excited about a possible Cuomo 2020 candidacy, I'd have zero dollars. The only person I've actually seen it floated as some sure thing is Morbz.

Tbf to morbs

this is unnecessary

i would vote Warren in an instant. i'm surprised to discover she is 67! she obv takes care of herself.

not really seeing her nomiated though. if the same people in charge last year are still in charge they will probably pick someone that sucks.

voters?

unfortunately yes

yes here is your choice the 3 ppl who were able to raise half a billion dollars, pure democracy with a Big D

lost to him by -2,868,691 votes

OK maybe just someone who reads Milton Bradley's instructions about The Object of the Game

jfc at the singing dem congresspeople

haven't heard or seen yet but it seems like an odd moment of misplaced overconfidence

i will never not be embarrassed by and angry at american politicians i guess

CA is moving its primary to March so maybe a bunch of dumb fucks in New Hampshire and Iowa dont have full say on who will be the nominee..

lost to him by -2,868,691 votes

This is up there with Republicans whining that Clinton wasn't legitimate because he only got a plurality of the popular vote.

oh yeah i'm sure it is

it's tantamount to calling the president of the united states "jonad"

@adamjohnsonNYC
how can dems on one hand talk about life and death (which it is) then sing based on some abstract political calculus 18 months form now?

Like, what's the point at all in looking smug like this? What upside is there? It confounds me.

It does?

The singing was fucked up.

it was an elaborate callback

It's like everyone has lost the ability to take things seriously.

are we sure it was the dems who were singing that?

i've been seeing conflicting reports all day

Idk. I hope it wasn't.

What the House Republicans did today is despicable.

True, but that doesn't make democrats response look good though.

Duh

I don't give a fuck.

me neither