IMHO, most of the Dem leadership came up through the ranks during the Reagan years and started getting seniority during the 1994 shellacking so a fighting retreat is their standard tactic. They don’t do brinksmanship well.

i.e. the Jimmy Savile double-fake

I wonder at what point they will realise that they aren’t going to be regarded as ‘one of the good ones’

i see fear in his eyes. this is the overcompensation of a very small person who's been pressed into thinking the whole world revolves around violence (against him)

The whole point is to make it seem as if any talk of race/gender is designed to shame white people

deepest condolences, Soren!