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A good tension

It seems to me that the divisions in the Democratic Party are being exaggerated by some friends and foes. Notwithstanding some differences on one issue or another, what is striking to me is the broad agreement on a range of…

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Allow people to change

I saw someone on FB bellyaching that Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a reversal of her earlier immigration positions is now speaking out against family separations at the border. I think that such a reaction to Schultz is silly at best.…

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Facts should matter

In a fact based world, Trumpian policies would collapse on their face, or actually never get a hearing. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-trade-war.html

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I wonder

Someone posted this long statement below, issued by 73 members of DSA before the 2016 elections, on their facebook page. I think he considered it a keen piece of political analysis. I don’t. At all. I  wonder if any of…

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Pick our fights wisely

Not sure what the point of asking Trump press secretary Saran Sanders to leave a restaurant in Washington by its owner is. But I do know that it quickly become raw meat for Trump and the right wing media to…