The people trying to make this into a policy thing are acting like this is about stopping the Iraq War or passing Medicare for All It isn't, and the willingness of Coleman to invoke some grand political struggle to shield himself from culpability is a huge red flag
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The paradox here is that Coleman's defenders are at once trying to make too much and too little of this race Coleman is not going to be in a position to give everyone health insurance or stop global warming or defund the police and military if he wins
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But he IS going to have a lot of local and personal power, he's going to have a staff and a title that gives him a lot of access to people's lives and a lot of protection from accountability THAT'S the important thing, and it's why character matters more than ideology here
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His defenders have been pulling a lot of this shit where on the one hand "The progressive movement is in a struggle for our lives and we need all hands on deck" and on the other "Why is the New York Times taking an interest in some podunk KS state House race"
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Both of these takes are wrong The whole point is that this isn't a struggle for the fate of the nation but it IS a struggle over whether to give some guy in Wyandotte County a ton of power over all the other people in Wyandotte County
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