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"According to interviews with more than 20 of Sanders’ aides, surrogates and top allies, many believe he should have been more aggressive in taking on Biden, including over the idea that he was more electable in November." Yup. politico.com/news/2020/04/1…
Oh look, one more reason why Ukrainegate was such an awful undertaking, as some of us tried to warn: Bernie wanted to campaign more in SC, but "had to scale those plans back due to the impeachment proceedings... Some of Sanders’ advisers and allies felt that especially hurt him."
Bernie wanted to campaign more in SC, but "had to scale those plans back due to the impeachment proceedings... Some of Sanders’ advisers and allies felt that especially hurt him." Thanks to Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, MSNBC, & every progressive outlet that played along for that.👍🏼
Bernie "would have endorsed [Warren] in a heartbeat if it was the other way around." Does anyone doubt that? Of course not, because Bernie is a real progressive, and Warren is something that rhymes with "fake."
Update: impeachment didn't just hurt Bernie in SC, but in Iowa too! Again, thanks to Schiff, Pelosi, MSNBC, & every Kool Aid-drinking blue-check who somehow thought that playing along w/ the #MuellerTime crew for another round was a good idea. 👍🏼
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.@MazMHussain of @theintercept feels "bitter" that costly US wars "have killed hundreds of thousands of people while failing to achieve any clear political or strategic benefit."

What right does US have to kill "hundreds of thousands" for a "political or strategic benefit"?
It has no such right of course, unless you're an apologist for US aggression. On that note, @MazMHussain shouldn't feel "bitter" -- the wars he championed in Libya & Syria had major strategic benefit for their neocon planners: they decimated the disobedient target states. 👍🏼
On foreign policy, @TheIntercept frequently exemplifies what Chomsky has called out since Vietnam: acceptable dissent on US aggression is confined to "strategic" critiques -- was the cost worth it to us? -- not questioning the underlying act. See also:
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I see no reason at all to vow to vote Biden without meaningful concessions to Bernie's significant constituency. No one owes Biden their vote. But -- that doesn't excuse not being fair-minded about the differences. A Trump admin re-election is a far bigger threat to the planet.
That assessment does not negate fact that Biden has awful policies & an awful record. That's true. But the smallest differences between elites can make the world of difference to the most vulnerable. That's just an unfortunate reality all of us are responsible for dealing with.
At this point in time, Biden probably has more blood on his hands. But the people around Trump -- especially Pompeo -- are sociopaths who have already done major damage to the world (nuke proliferation, regime change, sanctions, climate) & will do worse if given another 4 years.
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If your Bernie post-mortem isn't acknowledging that the Democratic establishment spent 3+ years hyperventilating about Russia & then using it to both sideline (e.g. protests for Jeff Sessions, not M4A) & taint Bernie's agenda (e.g. Nevada vote eve), you're missing something big.
I suspect that a big reason Russiagate isn't being grappled with is because too many progressives got duped into peddling it, or intimidated into not pushing back on it. But we can't just ignore it now.
Here's one e.g. Post-Mueller report, editor in chief of a major outlet claimed Mueller found "plenty of evidence of this kind of soft loose type of collusion." Outlet wasn't NYT, WP, Atlantic, or Mother Jones. It was adversarial, progressive The Intercept.
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