This is the same problem with trying to find a compromise on “comprehensive immigration reform.” If Real America TM is pissed off because “they’re eating the cats and the dogs” what’s the compromise? We agree to deport the 0 people who do that?”
We all know she’s going to hit him for being “inexperience.” But it was the decisions of Dems most experienced leaders that brought us here. There’s a balance to be struck to be sure, but broadly speaking youth is preferable to experience moving forward.
But now I genuinely think that the failure of the Democratic old guard to pass the torch with grace is substantially relevant to the current crisis. And I absolutely include Bernie in that. Mills’ age should be discussed directly as part of the primary fight.
You may be referring to a discourse I’m not familiar with, but I don’t agree with the implicit distinction. Before Ginsburg and Biden I probably would have thought of candidate age as separate from the questions of policy substance I would prefer to fight campaigns over.
I think it’s bad that Democrats keep nominating candidates who are extremely old (including my ideological allies like Bernie) and I think it’s a perfectly legitimate criticism in the wake of the 2024 debacle.
But that would require her to sincerely defend the rights of Palestinian rights activists in the here and now or else it falls flat. She’d rather call for the root and branch destruction of progressivism. “Rules for thee and none for me” is just too much fun for these guys to pass up.
I keep imagining a more effective Weiss who would at least be clever enough to say “Look, I get it. When I was in college I encountered some views that make me very uncomfortable and I reacted very badly. I cringe at how I behaved. Learn from my mistakes.”
Maybe she’s just genuinely too dumb to understand the disconnect between organizing harassment campaigns against arab professors and calling for free speech on campus.
I’ve always assumed her glaring apparent hypocrisy was just garden variety authoritarianism (freedom is when my ideas are promoted and yours are suppressed). But maybe she’s sincerely clueless.
Yeah, think I’m going to stick with “evangelical“ since that indexes the concept that I’m generally trying to communicate to the people I communicate about it with and these alternatives clarify nothing.
Guys the fact that this is an existing technology reimagined from first principles will not in any way deter the financial geniuses at Silicon Valley Bank. We just gotta talk our book with conviction.
