Eric Padget

They’re just openly going after gay people

she lives for this

"The parties switched" MFs final boss:

Ok. I guess we’re re-litigating the drama of the 2016 Dem Primaries so let’s unpack it. Bit of a read but I challenge anyone to tell me anything I get wrong: The DNC behaved unethically during that race. They were supposed to operate the primaries neutrally according to their own party rules and the internal emails showed a bias for Hillary and efforts to help her campaign when Bernie was still in the race. There were resignations. It caused chaos at the convention. Not great! But Hillary did not need the DNC’s help. She effectively had the nomination locked by Super Tuesday, which was on March 1st. All of the more controversial leaked emails were from May 2016 and beyond. Again, this was two months after Bernie’s path was sealed off. DNC officials did not hide their contempt for Bernie in those emails but their frustration wasn’t entirely unjustified, not that this excuses their breach of the rules. Bernie decided to stay in the race past Super Tuesday because he wanted to push her platform left. Him staying in longer meant less time, money, and resources devoted to campaigning against Trump. He’d never admit it publicly, but I wonder if he privately regrets his decision. You could say he was operating under the assumption that Trump would get whooped, but his decision to stay in definitely weakened Hillary’s campaign. And Trump was showing signs of competitiveness well before Bernie eventually tapped out. The media has a major role in all of this as well. They played up a horse race narrative for the Dem Primaries because a race that’s effectively over won’t drive as many viewers and clicks. So they talked about Bernie as though he still had a shot well past the point when he actually did, and this galvanized his supporters into believing that. But victory for Bernie was a mirage. He performed horribly with black and Hispanic voters and that alone was enough to seal the deal for Hillary. And the way the media reported on the emails didn’t help things either. You had all of these emails dated well after Bernie had no path, yet the media was presenting them as though these were conversations about how to prevent him from winning. They were well past the point of having to worry about that. So was there foul play from the DNC? Yes. Did any of this foul play prevent Bernie from winning? Nope. Was all of the foul play from that primary from the DNC? Nope. Bernie’s staffers inappropriately accessed Hillary’s campaign data after a temporary glitch left it vulnerable in late 2015. Somebody got fired over it. That’s not great either. All of the arguments that Bernie would have won were it not for the DNC are…bad. Remove super delegates entirely and he still loses decisively. Brazile sent Hillary’s campaign two town hall questions in advance…about drinking water in Flint and the death penalty. It’s bad, but there is a 0% chance Hillary hadn’t already prepared for those questions. All of the favoritism on display in those emails was in the context of the race being effectively over at the time. People claim that the DNC admitted to stealing it from Bernie in court but this is just straight up not correct. So yeah, they helped Hillary out in 2016. But Sanders did not build a winning coalition with his campaign, and Hillary did not need their help. There is no path to the Democratic Party nomination without black voters and they preferred Hillary by an enormous margin. All the rest is just noise.

🚨BREAKING: Many Dems are now leaning towards a Harris / Buttigieg ticket for 2028. What's your reaction?