ProLeft Podcast

The Professional Left Podcast

(on YouTube too)

"...why we have to be extraordinarily vigilant right now - because all over the media, all the usual guardians of establishment sensibilities - David Brookes and Michael Gerson et al - are all building lifeboats now. They're all gathering around the sensibility of "Donald Trump is this freak event; it's not the Republicans..." and you can hear the Tea Party Bush-off alibi machine warming up in the background." 

And BTW, Democratic Self-Loathers, do you really think the message is the problem? Really?

OK - here's one: 

GOP policies are bad for families.

Run on it. Conor Lamb did, and he won in a gerrymandered-as-fuck district where the Repubs figured they could run a tree stump and keep the seat.

And the bullshit about how Dems don't really stand for anything?

• Equal rights
• Marriage equality
• Science and The Arts
• Public education
• The rule of law
• People are more important than profit
• Tax policy should be fair and progressive
• Healthcare coverage - Medicare and Medicaid
• A woman's right to self-determination
• Air Water and Soil shouldn't be poisonous
• Everybody votes
• and and and

Dems don't stand for anything?