#Factional

David Roberts

drvolts

One thing that's striking in all this is that the conservative personality type is genuinely outraged, at a gut level, at the idea that they & their tribe should sacrifice

Jonathan Bernstein

jbview

This and the @mattyglesias thread below it are fine. A couple of thoughts, though.1. The system as it is tends to treat factional candidates harshly. Bernie chose to run as

Aaron Bastani

AaronBastani

Wow, Labour antisemitism investigation will not be sent to equality commission“A report found factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to "a litany of mistakes".https://news.sky.com/story/labour-

Recomposition

communistrecomp

Andrew Walder makes a pretty good case that the worst violence of the Cultural Revolution was perpetrated by the Military in their bid to stabilize the situation and suppress mass

Jed Shugerman

jedshug

My hot historical take is that the truly dangerous electoral "road map" is not Trump's from 2020. It's Madison's from 1787.The Electoral College is a more inevitable danger to democracy.

Scott Lemieux

LemieuxLGM

This analysis by @DavidOAtkins is very good. The failure of Bernie to win doesn't show that a progressive candidate/agenda can't win, it shows that you can't win a Democratic primary

Bec Tulloch

Bectully

A fractured left challenge with in party fighting and factional divisions is never going to win again the engine of the Tory party with the support of the right wing

Peter Mason

_petermason

Another Thread: This is textbook institutional antisemitism. Momentum and it’s leaders should be ashamed. For two very clear reasons, both of which are deeply problematic:https://twitter.com/peoplesmomentum/status/1276195438413131778 1) P

🔊💚 IT WAS BASS, MIDS, TOPS ALL ALONG 💚 🔊

joemuggs

Alrgiht enough fun and games. Not going to mention LabouLeaks after this, it's all too grim, and anyway this escalation now means it's going to play out in the courts,

Jonathan Cook

Jonathan_K_Cook

Labour has shelved a huge dossier of evidence showing that there was a plot by Corbyn's own officials to stitch him up over antisemitism claims. The dossier was effectively Corbyn's

Matthew Aaron Richmond

mattyrichy

What I've gathered from the leaked Labour report seems to confirm what I've long felt about the antisemitism scandal: 1) the Lab Right deliberately stoked claims of AS for factional

Chloe Ingram🌹

chloe__i

The hot take no one asked for:This is f****** atrocious but what has it got to do with ASThanks and goodnight.https://twitter.com/raynerskynews/status/1249053545837604864 Yes all of this stuff should be investigated in

Elvis Buñuelo

Mr_Considerate

Those of us who remember Gordon Brown’s tenure as PM as three years of anonymous hostile briefings and unrelenting vituperation from senior colleagues might be permitted to raise an eyebrow

Recomposition

communistrecomp

One of the principal failures of mass mobilization during Cultural Revolution was factional fragmentation which occured irrespective of class background, privilege, or economic interest. Quite often, two factions would contain

Archie Woodrow

Archimbaldo

problem's much worse imo. political level in labour is so low that most people define their politics largely through personal loyalties and relationships - so when something claiming to share

Barnett R. Rubin

BRRubin

This is a thread about the centralization or decentralization of the state in Afghanistan. By writing on this topic I am inviting virtually all Afghans and analysts of Afghanistan to