How Leftists and Moderates Did in the Midterms
Three months ago, I wrote a post “setting up the goal posts” to measure how individual candidates did in the midterms. I did that for two reasons: First, I did it to be a dick. I feel that liberals can be too polite, and we bite our tongues in response to the hate and idiocy that DSA types are trying to smuggle into the mainstream — I see a role for a t…
Don’t Root Against El-Sayed Because You Imagine That Anyone Will Learn Anything
Let’s be honest: Some non-leftist Democrats kind of want Abdul El-Sayed to lose his Senate race in Michigan. That’s not the world’s most noble impulse; it strikes me as kind of like wishing for the guy who edged you out for a promotion to get Me Too’d. Of course, El-Sayed doesn’t help things by being — in my assessment — a dickish know-nothing whose best trait is simply that he’s not Mike Rogers.
