Yglesias is a tricksy centrist who occasionally fakes left, so take this with a grain of salt, but some interesting (albeit unsurprising) stats in this:
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Assuming things continue as they are, with the media and party establishment successfully handing the nomination to Biden:
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Biden loses.
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Dems respond to Trump’s reelection by shifting even further right.
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Left begins some serious resistance; some “respectable” (e.g. strikes etc), some less “respectable” (e.g. nonviolent direct action, underground railroad for ICE targets, etc), some actively subversive (e.g. serious revolutionary shit).
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Dems collaborate with Trump in the suppression of all of the above. Fascism entrenches and accelerates.
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Boots being unusually optimistic:
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So pretty much exactly like 2016 but more.
My thought was, the Democratic party is trying to fight a garbage fire with garbage fire.
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Unstated but true: one in five Labour/Remain voters are also utter scum.
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Aargh.
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History I didn’t know:
Winfield Scott, the Whig candidate in 1852, was the bastard responsible for executing the captured survivors of the St Patrick’s Battalion.
Plenty of current relevance in that election.
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