AND: Our Revolution/Bernie endorsed candidates appear to have all lost.

The revolution will not be televised. :)

Bernie's value was always that he could help push Dems into more progressive positions. And that is valuable. But he is not the builder of a revolutionary movement - he evidences no taste for that kind of work.

Work being the operative word there. Bernie failed to gain the nomination because he quite simply didn't put in the work in the South and therefore lost on Super Tuesday and never could catch up, even with all the caucuses that favor candidates like "the Bern." It ain't rocket science.

And when he goes out and hisses at "the establishment" these days he just renders himself irrelevant. The message doesn't resonate when "the establishment" is all you have holding back authoritarianism, christofacism and white supremacy.

So true... and also falls fairly flat on its face when you've been a card carrying member of that "establishment" for nearly three decades. :)

Separately, here's a terrific screed about the pustule that is Blotus, and the NFL.

This is dead on... and really describes some of them to a "T"... and not just BLOTUS and some of the "NFL oligarchs" but many of the grieving old white guys living in their double wides who genuinely believe they're not getting something they're entitled to because of the "others" whom they believe aren't genuflecting enough to their self-perceived superiority.

This is the thing that comes after politics, a tangy slurry that fills the vacuum with ancient and inchoate and unreasoning grievance. Trump and his people believe themselves to be, separately but not in any meaningful way together, synonymous with America. Everything and everyone outside their understanding—which is, respectively, a lot and basically everyone—is something else, something smaller and other. An abstraction, but also a distraction from What Really Matters—not you, but me, me, me. There is no deal to make with people like this, because there is no limit to what they want.

Absolutely brilliant and dead on accurate... every word. Thank you for posting it. :)

I'm seeing stats indicating terrific Dem turnout; we won the Missouri Special Election and it's appearing we won't be shut out of races in CA.

Flip 42 at the state level. :)

Bernie's value was always that he could help push Dems into more progressive positions. And that is valuable. But he is not the builder of a revolutionary movement - he evidences no taste for that kind of work. And when he goes out and hisses at "the establishment" these days he just renders himself irrelevant. The message doesn't resonate when "the establishment" is all you have holding back authoritarianism, christofacism and white supremacy.

I'm seeing stats indicating terrific Dem turnout; we won the Missouri Special Election and it's appearing we won't be shut out of races in CA. Women did very well too.

Separately, here's a terrific screed about the pustule that is Blotus, and the NFL: https://deadspin.com/the-nfl-is-too-dumb-to-realize-that-donald-trump-is-nev-1826558748

But Trump also hasn’t changed his broader position; he is not listening or learning or changing, because those are not things he does. He is pushing and pushing and pushing at this issue because that is what he does, and because he is nothing without something to push against. There is no compromise to make. Trump wants to become the world, to erase and expunge everything from it that is not him or about him. A generation of the worst and most hard-hearted people that this country has ever produced are lined up outside the church he has opened, and they are willing to leave everything outside in order to gain entry. It’s the only way in. It’s the only way there will be enough room.

I wonder if I can win with one vote.

No.