My counter to the patriotism discourse. No question "the wokening," needs to be destroyed but that's also the result of a party that increasingly caters to the wealthy and educated in a runaway polarization period (just Bernie and Warren people). https://twitter.com/Shialabeefsteak/status/1123684041717424128

A year and a half ago you couldn't say amongst the people who lead the left that there's no nazi threat or we're not running concentration camps at the border. That was instacancel. I'm sorry Bernie was struggling to keep this base and he needed to America Fuck Yeah. Ok.

This is the way Bernie 2020 is becoming the fall guy proxy for What Actually Happened To The Left. That motherfucker was barely to Trump's left on immigration before you guys got to him. Now he simply should have put on the flag pin?? Arguably, if winning is all we care about, he

wasn't Left Polarizing enough. That was what gave Warren the way in and it's then that he lost his base and spent a year and 100 million dollars trying to get these idiots back. If you see what happened as simply polarization amongst young white educated Dem voters then it's much

more enervating but at least it's real. This gives you some sense of what's happening and how to channel it in the right direction. Feels like we're all trying to avoid facing up to the fact that it's not the adoption or not adoption of issues, aesthetics or certain messages.

One weird trick for a socialist to win the presidency.... be Joe Biden.

We are just going to pretend that the Dem party primary is exactly like a general election but smaller. 2016 takeaway - Hillary won bc of wokeness. 2020 takeway - Bernie lost bc of wokeness. I said it over and over before this election. The party is not weak. The partisans love

their party. There's no appetite for "revolution" when you say there's a nazi takeover and the world is coming to an end. It was assumed that Bernie doing well in 2016 meant "we were winning." You weren't ever winning. Bernie was a great vehicle but you had to build the right way

We had 4 years and we did nothing but check in on what elite liberals were thinking and throw a socialist spin on it. It was still happening early last year during the primary which is how we ended up pushing Bernie on a million dopey leftoid activist projects.

I truly think that the people who insisted Biden was not a strong candidate (I said he was and would be hard to beat) and would fizzle *eventually* don't understand politics at a basic level and now they're looking for a campaign trick. It was over before it started.