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and of course the primaries are just a step on the way to what really matters

“Saudi Arabia’s trying to make Canada submit”

Can we stop treating this lie seriously once and for all? We all know what’s really going on. The Republican attack on Pelosi is about conservative identity politics, full stop. It’s partly the same kind of ugly misogyny that has driven conservatives for years, and that comes out whenever the prospect of a woman wielding genuine power rears its head. Women who display ambition are judged harshly, particularly by conservatives; it’s no accident that Bernie Sanders, whose policy ideas are much more opposed to conservatism than Pelosi’s, inspires nothing like the venomous loathing on the right that Pelosi and Hillary Clinton do.

of ugly misogyny that has driven conservatives for years, and that comes out whenever the prospect of a woman wielding genuine power rears its head.

The Democratic National Committee on Friday officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve its suit to the elusive group that has thus far been unresponsive.
As CBS News first reported last month, the DNC filed a motion with a federal court in Manhattan requesting permission to serve its complaint to WikiLeaks on Twitter, a platform the DNC argued the website uses regularly. The DNC filed a lawsuit in April against the Trump campaign, Russian government and WikiLeaks, alleging a massive conspiracy to tilt the 2016 election in Donald Trump's favor.

All of the DNC's attempts to serve the lawsuit via email failed, the DNC said in last month's motion to the judge, which was ultimately approved.

The lawsuit was served through a tweet from a Twitter account established Friday by Cohen Milstein, the law firm representing the DNC in the suit, with the intent of serving the lawsuit.

The Republican attack on Pelosi is about conservative identity politics, full stop

I think it is more likely that in the eyes of most conservatives Bernie Sanders is an inconsequential looney socialist who presents no real political threat, and indeed may be a boon to them.

This, of course was more or less the same view that likely moved then ordained "president" Hillary to choose Bernie to provide pro forma opposition in the Democrat primary. It turned out that Bernie tapped unexpected enthusiasm among a new. emerging segment of Democrat voters, and surprised both Hillary and the Party elites in doing so.

John Catsimatidis, a billionaire businessman and radio host who owns a New York City supermarket chain and attended the CEO dinner, described Trump as in a "great mood" as he promoted the economy and fielded questions, including several on immigration. The president told those in attendance that he was considering signing an executive order to make it easier for top-performing foreign students to stay in the U.S. as well as for companies to hire the foreign workers they need.

"Whatever's needed in America, whether it's truck drivers or programmers, whatever's needed for American companies," Catsimatidis said Trump told him.

I think you might too easily dismiss that “unexpected enthusiasm”...

Although I disagree with your assessment of Bernie, you were right that Hillary thought she would benefit from his presence in the primary.

I think you might too easily dismiss that “unexpected enthusiasm”...

Lash wrote:

Although I disagree with your assessment of Bernie, you were right that Hillary thought she would benefit from his presence in the primary.

I think you might too easily dismiss that “unexpected enthusiasm”...

Possibly. Certainly other new entrants into the political movement, such as Ocasio-Cortes, have also generated similar, but restricted in scope, waves of enthusiasm. However, it appears to me that they, the current DNC leadership team of Tom Perez and Keith Ellison, and the major Democrat leaders in the Congress have not yet shown any coherent policy platform that is even remotely politically defensible or likely to succeed with American voters. Beyond a too zealous opposition to all that is Trumpian, they have little that is either
defensible or persuasive to offer.

I'll concede that Bernie has a good deal more earnest, human appeal than these others. However, even he has not reached a sufficiently wide sector of American voters to succeed, and in comparison the others are sorely lacking.

Yesterday that, rather fatuous, and self-absorbed Democrat commentator, Lawrence O'Donnell, predicted that Elizabeth Warren will easily defeat Trump
in the next Presidential election. I find that a laughable proposition, more indicative of the delusions of "opposition" propaganda than of serious political analysis. I believe Republicans would be delighted to see Warren as the Democrat nominee.