Divisive

To suggest, as Bernie did today, that anybody that isn’t on Bernie’s team is a “corporate” Democrat is pernicious and divisive. It isn’t strategic, not even good tactics, especially if you’re the front runner and likely nominee.

Predictable and normal

When moderates drop out of the race and consolidate around Joe Biden it isn’t a conspiracy or rigged, it is predictable and normal.

Both can

Both Bernie and Biden can beat Trump. To say that nominating one or the other forecloses that possibility rests more on ideological disposition than reality and facts.

The dynamics change

Joe Biden’s victory in South Carolina, propelled by African American voters, changes the dynamics of the primary. Tomorrow, Super Tuesday, voters across the country will tell us to what degree and in what ways.

Hollowing out federal agencies

The coronavirus is, sorry to say, bringing to public attention the dangers of hollowing out (Steven Bannon calls it deconstructing the state) federal agencies whose functions are to address issues, like viruses, contagions, and public safety and health. What might have seemed an abstract and distant danger a week ago has become immediate and frightening.

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