OK, all joking aside here's my two cents on "Biden's unity problem":

Last year Joe Biden ran an ad insinuating that passing M4A would somehow be an insult to his dead son. A few weeks ago he pledged to veto it if a Democratic House and Senate passed it while he was President.

He didn't just vote for the Iraq war. He was one of the main people pushing it on the Dem side. In terms of criminal justice issues he spent decades as one of the loudest voices in the Senate pushing for ever harsher policies to lock 'em up and throw away the key, etc.

After a decent period of mourning has passed for the Sanders campaign I'm happy to have a discussion about harm reduction and tactical voting in swing states but if that's going to be an adult conversation it has to start from a place of honesty about who and what Joe Biden *is*.

The idea of him earning the left's "trust" is bizarro world stuff. I trust Joe Biden to sincerely share my policy preferences about as much as I'd trust Hunter Biden to pass a drug test without using someone else's piss. That's not going to change.

The real question is which battles you'd rather fight with which kind of enemy and on what terrain. Just because two people are both your enemies doesn't mean you should ignore the real world consequences of the differences between them.

But that's also a discussion best left for another time. Meanwhile, have a stiff drink in honor of Bernie Sanders for fighting the good fight. And then go straight from there to finding other ways to fight it. (Rent strikes are a good place to start.)