End this primary.

We are always in some moment or another. This is inescapable. In this moment, voters have broken decisively in favor of a candidate and continue to do so in poll after poll to follow landslide vote after landslide vote. 1/

And yet some persist because, *contra* this moment, there is a wish for another moment. A moment that simply does not exist. 2/

The primacy of *politics*, which never goes away no matter how much you wish it will, is that one has to read them not to face ruin. No matter what you *think* it reads, what it *is* will become clear in spite of you. 3/

It is time to read what the people have overwhelmingly chosen and live to fight another day. You will survive a Democratic president. You may even thrive a little. You might not survive this Republican one. 4/

The primacy of politics will show the reason that ending a primary prior to its textbook definitional "end" is such a common phenomenon. It is *standard* practice. Why? Because politics matters! It matters where you focus. It matters what you say and do. 5/

Ideas matter in the long run, but politics is the very material of those ideas and must be navigated. You simply cannot ignore this. The last century even of Marxist thought has partly been a gigantic project to understand that *politics* was an underdeveloped realm in theory. 6/

To throw away that understanding to continue down this rigidly quasi-"theoretical" road is suicidal.

It has never mattered whether you were talking about a vote or a violent revolution. Ignoring politics is a death sentence. end/