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Agree that voters we care about don't care what "the chattering class" says. Agree that candidates in any given party competing until a decision is made does not necessarily cash out for party weakness once one is selected (not suggesting, of course, that attempts at hostile takeovers would work).

If you love Michael Steele, Tim, I will because he is now part of the family. Endless mulligans and benefits of the doubt. You know something is coming. As far as telling me I am pissing in my soup or have my head up my ass, or, worse, am the dummy who thought Biden was young the day before the debate, and whoa, duh, realized suddenly that he was old afterwards? I was out there telling folks who were getting better info from fascist rightwing propaganda than we were getting from his campaign, that he was not impaired, just compensating for a stutter, and yes, AGE. In fact, I did not know that he was incoherent before the debate.

But back to Michael, I can see how cute and funny and truly superior it is to mock lowercase democratic debate about the viability of Biden's candidacy. Not a fan of the shaming, though, you know, the bad kind.

My other favorite Tim wrote this yesterday, and he talks about the fascist qualities of "fall in line" crap. Not in those terms exactly. https://snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-froth

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Also, love true ideological diversity, but genuinely disgusted by people who use their ideological history, be it left or right, as a device to posture to both sides a la Douthat and a long list of others. You know, I Hate Trump, but student loans. Or, in this case, count me never-Trump, but the Democrats are behaving like idiots, what with all this talking about reality. Like I said, planning to love Michael Steele for you.

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