The Washington Post could devote this prominent headline space to almost any other story and serve its readers better. There are a million issues facing American voters. There's no shortage of foreign news. But politics-as-sport gets the clicks, and needs the artificial drama
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I will go on a limb and say approximately zero people will condition their vote for Sanders on whether or not they believe he overpraised Cuban literacy programs, or was too generous to Soviet youth sports in 1988
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Think about stories like this next time you hear a rant about how Fox News is pure propaganda, while we are the brave truth seekers keeping the wan flame of civilization alight in a sea of barbarism
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I like to think of this as third-derivative political journalism: "Will this mean the accelerating move towards Sanders picks up pace more slowly?"
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It would be, if his remarks were about the efficacy of central planning or the desirability of a one-party state or something. But they're not—they're measured praise of some aspects of these regimes that are perfectly reasonable even if one disagrees.
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Thank you for this. Maybe the Big O saying the exact same damn thing will be the last nail in the coffin of this dumb storyhttps://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1232125696274653184?s=21 …
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