Kevin de León stuns Dianne Feinstein, wins Democratic Party endorsement in a landslide https://interc.pt/2uAwE0y by @ddayen
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Condescend much? "Don't read wiki"? I don't need to - I'm a former CA state delegate & a CA voter. Thanks for Beltway-splaining CA to me. Lucky for
#DiFi that we CA voters don't take our voting advice from a 330-member board - or from Ryan Grim. We spoke loudly in the primary. -
That doesn’t answer the question. If you disagree with the party sometimes, but not other times, does that make you a hypocrite? Or does it means you think there are higher values than party loyalty?
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I think you and Greenwald are hypocrites. Not going to dance around it. I think party endorsements are fine. I also think they are largely worthless based on 25 yrs working in politics In my area both the party endorsed candidates for State Rep and State Sen lost. My problem with
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Your gymnastics is that you and others at the Intercept have pushed the idea that Bernie Sanders lost b/c of party intervention. He didn’t - he got 4m fewer votes (that’s a lot). However party intervention is fine b/c you prefer DeLeon to Feinstein. That’s just plain hypocrisy.
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I wrote the story - which mainly just tells what happened at the endorsement - and if you can find one example where I (nobody else, just me) pushed any idea about Bernie Sanders losing the primary due to party intervention I'll mail you a free copy of my book.
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Same. Except my book.
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The use of power to support Hillary was to avoid trump's presidency. That's likely to be an issue in every dem primary ever as the party moves away from centering white men and towards centering women and people of color ( or both) The intercepts issues with this are perpetual
End of conversation
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