re: #183 HappyWarrior

Since Corbyn took over Labour, I had the thought and still do that the Democratic leadership isn’t as foolish as he is. Pelosi is much more intelligent and forward thinking than Jeremy Corbyn has ever been.

And I think the “forward-thinking” part is the vital bit: Jeremy Corbyn always struck me as being the political equivalent of the coelocanth: a creature long thought extinct, until one day, one is is discovered swimming around Westminster, and elevated to Party leadership mainly because of, rather than despite, being a living anachronism.

Not that this is going to stop the chattering-head pundits from drawing an incorrect conclusion: simple-minded sloganeering about “socialism” is a lot easier to generate sound-bites with…