yep. All it leaves is a result depending on the integrity and reach of either side in a conflict, and a dishonest and abusive person is going to come out ahead in the narrative

What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.

A small but meaningful part of the damn problem with the Democratic Party is that there is absolutely no meaningful internal party discipline — at least, not aimed at the party’s right. Discipline is only for progressives that are actually on program.

That would require alienating their corporate constituents, safer to pitch yourself as nicer than the bad guys and just shrug when it doesn't work

I will not bring this energy here further but Jonathan Chait is in my opinion an odious human being whose function in our discourse is in no way made less pernicious by virtue of his being so generic and replaceable

Every one should read Command and Control, the laugh-a-minute nonfiction book about all the many times we’ve dropped or lost or forgot or set fire to various nuclear warheads

anyway remember when the democrats controlled both houses and the executive but couldn't do shit because of [checks] the Senate Parliamentarian? thank god Jesus Was on the Throne then too or we'd really be sorry now

I love Uranus!