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THREAD TO PETER:

Why make this a Hillary/Sanders game again? The overwhelming # of HRC supporters are looking to 2020 & our criticisms of 2016 are in the service of not letting optics, irrationality and media bias win the day again. 1/
By jumping on the media’s premature, sexist coronation of a white male savior you have forgotten all the lessons of 2016. Yes, we should all come together —but we have a better chance of that happening by insisting the media stop its mindless, self-fulfilling pronouncements. 2/
As you yourself say, we’ve got great progressive candidates to choose from, and surprise!!—some of them are women. They would have a fighting chance, too, if the media pumped them up the way they have the boys. 3/
I really don’t know how to understand your claim that you are a “realist”! Don’t you know these “reports” about $ and early polls help MAKE the “front runners”? Do you really think Bernie is just rising spontaneously from some populist, progressive cloud of support? 4/
And please stop insulting HRC supporters. Do you think we are so mindless and grief-obsessed that we are unable to assess WHO to throw our support behind in 2020 without being guided by someone more “realistic”? The “real” has to be fought for. I thought you knew that. 5/
I’ll always be grateful for your support for my book, I’ll always try to understand why you’ve landed where you have. But right now I’m stunned and perplexed. And very, very sad. END
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