Kevin de León stuns Dianne Feinstein, wins Democratic Party endorsement in a landslide https://interc.pt/2uAwE0y by @ddayen
I’ve written about how they’ve practiced it, not the principle itself. Huge difference.
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Can you make that distinction more clear in your future pieces?
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Because that’s quite a few of us that didn’t catch that nuance.
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I report on what the party does. I’m flattered you care what my opinion on the principle is. I try not to preach in stories, but if you think it could help to try to add that, sure
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Some of your critics are referencing this tweet. How should we interpret it?https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/740199206770593792?s=19 …
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As the piece says, the winner was finally declared by a secret vote of some nameless super delegates, which is objectively a not-very-open process. The opacity of it was galling.
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But that’s a tweet about how it ended, nothing more than that.
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You've written that it was a "scandal" that the DNC supported Clinton. Why is it only a "scandal" when the party supports someone you don't like?
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Because he's a hypocrite. When he opposes a decision, rather than address it on the merits he tries to frame it as illegitimate.
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Do you read past the headlines? The whole critique is that the strategy Dems are clinging to has led to failure and should change. Is that not objectively true?
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So you are claiming you called DNC support of Clinton a "scandal" because you thought it was not the best strategy? That is not what the word scandal means. And it's not consistent with the regularly repeated claim from Berniecrats that the DNC was supposed to be impartial
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The only thing one needs to know about this race is that Feinstein, for all her "centrist" flaws, is the people's candidate, while de Leon is the one backed by the Party Elites and superdelegates.
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So the "scandals" you "reported" earlier were actually your own subjective disagreements regarding electoral strategy? Not that the DCCC or state parties were doing anything wrong, just unwise?
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I got whiplash reading this.
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