okay for real, what is this even?pic.twitter.com/YcoA97jKHa
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Wait a minute, in that sentence that you clipped, all I said was that the race has largely been covered that way. Do you disagree? Separately, do you disagree that El-Sayed is running to her left? I'm not placing value judgments--aren't those facts?
And yes, like you said, it's a shorthand. By definition, a shorthand erases lots of other stuff. That's why it's called a shorthand. I definitely do get tired of words like progressive, centrist, establishment, etc, but what are better shorthands? They're not the same politically
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centrist is an extremely loaded word, especially to your audience. She’s not a lipinksi-esque dem and that’s what this appears to imply. Having a challenger even further left than you doesn’t make you a centrist by default.
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we called him right wing
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Also, this was to my newsletter (thanks for reading!) that goes more to Clinton rather than Bernie folks, actually.
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Dude, I’ve been part of your newsletter since it started back at huffpo I think :)
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Yay! (But seriously, I don’t have facebook-level data, but my sense is that a majority of the subscribers were for clinton over bernie; it was not meant as a dig, just describing how the media have covered that race)
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you could have used “establishment” and “anti-establishment” or “party supported” and “insurgent” or any number of distinctions that didn’t erase the fact that she is a longstanding politician and one with yes, a progressive record- policies she’s voted on again and again.
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establishment is also deeply loaded now and I try to avoid it. Surprised to hear that would have been preferable.
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At least establishment would acknowledge the fact that she isn’t a newcomer and has been part of party leadership
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I figured that the fact that she was a front runner for governor says in itself that she’s quite a serious candidate
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