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A woman has made an accusation against a powerful man. If we pick and choose which #MeToo accusations to even take a first look at, we delegitimize the entire process, and undermine the attempt to get our society to give women willing to come forward the benefit of the doubt. If Biden can’t withstand a CNN story about this, how could he possibly stand up to what Republicans will do with this? And, in the longer term, if we can’t pursue each and every accusation of sexual assault, whether it’s politically convenient or not, how can we possibly claim to stand against the misogyny of a Harvey Weinstein or a Donald Trump?Continue Reading

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These are absolute political minefields, and Bernie is challenging them. He is betting that the support he has built, and the basis on which he has built it, will mean his challenges to these powerful forces are boons, rather than hindrances, to his campaign. At the least, if he isn’t hurt by them, he will have shown conclusively that the electability argument is simply wrong. After all, the Cuba comments speak directly to his alleged affinity for left-wing authoritarians (which is nonsense).
One way or another, we will have the best evidence one could ask for in the next eight days, in the debate and then in South Carolina and Super Tuesday.Continue Reading

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Defeating Trump is not hard. Any honestly nominated Democrat (except maybe Biden, who’s just too horrible a campaigner, as I’ve pointed out in the past), conservative or progressive, could beat him. But by giving people a choice between Trump and a thoroughly dishonest party machine (and let’s recall, Republicans have not done similar things. They don’t have to because they don’t give their voters any options outside of oligarchs and kleptocrats), combined with their sheer incompetence, Democrats will re-elect Trump.Continue Reading