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Citizen K12/03/2019 12:08:54 pm PST

re: #14 Belafon

As for Harris, Booker, and Castro, there is a level of racism even in the Democratic party that makes it easy to latch onto things like “Harris is a cop” and dismiss her. And it’ll be hard to get that out.

It, to me, is the same thing that makes it easy for people to argue that Obama was a conservative.

Obama, even when I criticized him for being too gunshy, had a metric assload of needles he had to thread just to be palatable to folks. He couldn’t afford to be strident, and he came off as a true believer in pragmatic incrementalism. Unfortunately, between the all-or-nothing GOP and a media that delighted in treating him like a radical anyway….