Ah Walker Bragman, he of the worst-aged headline in history. (One for which he will never apologize, despite my best efforts.)

Anyone who asks why Obama didn't do more with the supermajority needs to remember that Obama had to deal with eight or nine Joe Manchins in the caucus, Baucus being among the most Manchiniest of them all.

All McConnell knew how to do was appoint judges and say “no.” He never passed a major piece of legislation.

Isn't it still an indictment of Schumer if he wasn't able to keep his entire caucus in line?

This one is pretty much nothing but softballs.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Democratic Party's platform has gotten more and more progressive since 2016 and if you can't see that, the problem's on you.

The question is whether or not Mamdani will be effective as Mayor in implementing the changes he promises. Only then can we assess whether or not he’s a model for the future or a local phenomenon.

Amen.

Great, so it's the Jews' fault that the NYPD is bad.

It still feels to me like he's taking a larger problem - police brutality - and blaming it on something that only a very small percentage of police departments actually do.

The one thing he's said that I do think is tinged with antisemitism is when he said in 2023 "when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF."

Because every other interview he does is just him lobbing softballs while pretending his monologues are questions.

Oh I always knew he was Fetterman 2.0, and we haven't even gotten to what he did when he was a mercenary for Blackwater.

I’ll bet he’s never read one line of Balzac!

He still uses that acronym. I think someone made fun of him for laughing too loud as a kid and he turned that humiliation into a principle, because he almost never laughs out loud and considers it gauche if you do so in public.