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February 18, 2025
A fine rant in The Nation from Dave Zirin, "Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch":
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/tnamp/
"But we need to lose the theory that these Dems are 'spineless'
and just don’t understand how to wage political war. We know they
can be vicious because we’ve seen them execute that kind of
operation against the left since Ralph Nader caught them sleeping
in 2000. We have seen them do it maliciously during Senator
Bernie Sanders's two primary runs. We saw Black and brown women
stamped as 'Bernie Bros' with enough, yes, ruthless, repetition
to make it stick. We’ve seen President Barack Obama with all his
rhetorical powers hector young Black men, but not aim his
electric cadence at Musk and his Palo Alto brownshirts. It’s not
that they cannot-- they will not. When it was Sanders or an
individual who demanded even a modest change in policy on Gaza,
they brought out the knives. When it’s Musk and his apartheid
army of incels, they wield sporks. Yet, as we keep seeing, spork
fighting is demoralizing."--------
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