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Hillary Clinton has 17 million votes at the end of the 2016 primaries vs. Bernie Sanders' 13.2 million. But up until July 12, 2016, Bernie Sanders argued that superdelegates ought to overturn Hillary's lead and give him the nomination instead.
Bernie Sanders, June 4, 2016: "The Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention. ... I'm not here to tell you that tomorrow we're going to flip 300 superdelegates. ... But I am saying we are going to make the case."
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Ashton Pittman
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Before becoming president, LBJ was a...
—Dem congressman, 13 years
—Dem US senator, 12 years
—Dem Senate Majority Whip years, 2 years
—Dem Senate Minority/Majority Leader, 8 years
—Dem VP, 3 years

Not exactly an outsider. LBJ came out of the FDR's Democratic establishment. 👇🏻
Before FDR became president, he was a...

—Dem NY state senator, 2 years
—Assistant Secretary of the Navy appointed by Dem President Woodrow Wilson, 7 years
—Governor of New York, 3 years

Neither FDR nor LBJ considered themselves "Democratic socialists" or anti-establishment.
This will only shock & outrage you if your definition of "establishment" is something other than "an established order of society: such as
a group of social, economic, & political leaders who form a ruling class."

In otherwise, those capable of exercising power (ex: LBJ & FDR).
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Ashton Pittman
@ashtonpittman
"Can we get Gone With the Wind back, please?"

No. The opening text of the film makes this clear:

"Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a civilization gone with the wind..."
It's highly doubtful Trump ever sat all the way through Gone With the Wind.

But as a lover of film, and a Mississippian who really appreciates a lot about GWTW (as well as the deserved modern criticisms of it), I think a New York billionaire pining for the Old South sure is odd.
But here's the thing: Trump pines for the days when films like Gone With the Wind won best picture, instead of a South Korean film?

South Korea is a US ally.

The Confederacy was not.

While I'm at it, Russia isn't either.
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Ashton Pittman
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Watching people threaten that either...

a) Bernie Sanders <substitute any candidate> wins
OR
b) Trump wins re-election

...evokes memories of my 2016 plea for people to remember that elections aren't just about the next 4 years of the WH, but the next 40 years of the courts.
I'm a journalist but also a married gay man living in Mississippi. I'm not neutral when it comes to the future of the courts. My marriage (& my health care+a number of other things) was possible bc of a 1-vote majority on the Supreme Court that probably not longer exists.
I won't tell you who to vote for. But I don't have the privilege of being able to feign neutrality or play the purity game when it comes to human rights, because mine are on the line.

And despite being gay, I'm also a white man. The stakes are even greater for millions more.
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#BERNIE SANDERS = THE MORAL CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT

It's been a long journey to reach that conclusion. Please hear me out.

My journey started in Beirut, where I grew up in a brutal civil war. Violence and injustice everywhere.

But today's America alarms me more than Beirut...
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