Listening to Sondland elucidating Trump’s role at the top of the bribery-extortion food chain reminds me of the folk wisdom that has held up well across time: if it smells like s..t, it likely is.

I continue to think that Elizabeth Warren is an impressive candidate. She has, I believe, a combination of qualities — compassion, intelligence, bold ideas, sense of partisanship, storytelling ability, modest background and sense of modesty, and ability to inspire and unite — that would make her an outstanding president.

I’m not sure if you would call it a retreat, but I like Elizabeth Warren’s tweaking of her health care plan. It makes good political sense.

If yesterday’s testimony by the two career foreign service officers strongly resonates with Democrats as well as favorably registers among a good section of independents and erodes Trump’s support on the margins of the Republican Party then it was a good day for Democrats and the larger movement for impeachment.

A left that can’t speak of the necessity of defeating Trump without invariably reminding you that it is also committed to going toe to toe with centrists and neoliberals in the Democratic Party makes me wonder if anything has been learned from the experience of 2016.

At this moment, there will surely be competition between the various trends in the Democratic Party, but the overarching necessity of broad unity in the Democratic Party and the diverse democratic coalition opposing Trump should be the sauce that everyone swims in and gives voice to, even in this phase of the elections process. And yet, this doesn’t come out of the mouths of many on the left. Not good.