This is a smart piece, @joshualeifer is a good guy and great colleague at @dissent, but: I actually *don’t* think Sanders is unelectable—sure he could win (or lose) like any of them—and I’m not worried about anti-semitism beating him. Just think Sanders/Warren stuff is sectarian. https://twitter.com/jewishcurrents/status/1206993148133687299 …
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He is in a lot of ways, but a lot if people calculate he won’t win. OTOH, that may have changed in the last couple of months in that, at best, it’s not clear Warren can win either the nomination or the general election either. There’s no sweet spot.
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When you have been through a few 'comings of the millennium,' you have a tendency to put a high premium on actually winning critical battles. Ideal types of socialism, even those kosher enough for Irving Howe, don't make history; winning class struggle does.
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Yeah, it’s just calculating who can win—the primary, essential purpose of any electoral campaign—which, as is clear now, might be wrong in both cases as they will both get killed with a zillion dollars of ads about a health care plan that won’t become law anyway.
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