He just told us other reasons, like the fact that he believes in right-wing rhetoric!

Man, Lestat going hard in the paint for Republican ideas while claiming to be the one true liberal is too hilarious to ban.

I mean, if I take you at your word that you voted for Hillary, I have to also believe that you are pretty stupid, because she disagrees with tons of your core beliefs.

This is obviously false. Numerous GOP Senators and party leaders didn't support Trump in the 2016 general election. The Tea Party/Freedom Caucus wing of the GOP was in more or less open opposition to Boehner for much of his time as Speaker.

Three points.

1) It is impressive to me how so many people here regard running a national presidential campaign as simple and the potential mistakes obvious. Have you ever run a political campaign? Do you have access to the polling data and computer models used by political strategists to make decisions? What is your basis for making these claims?

2) The DNC didn't anoint HRC. If you think this, you don't understand Democratic Party politics. The DNC is a fundraising organization with little influence over presidential primary votes. Instead, Hillary Clinton was a very strong candidate and so few people wanted to challenge her. Clinton herself got other potential nominees to drop out, not the DNC.

3) Except for 2004, with its rally-around-the-flag impact, the Democratic candidate has won the popular vote in every presidential election for almost 30 years, including last year. How is that a fractured party? There is clearly plenty of popular support for the Democratic Party and it policies/leaders. The problem facing the Democratic Party is not a lack of popular support, or even a lack of unity among its leaders or voters, but rather the distributional disadvantages that result in America's federal system from a voter base that is younger, urban, and less white.

You've already established you have no idea what the face of racism currently looks like.

so, we agree that some trump voters are racist and actively proliferate racist policies. BUT other trump voters are simply along for the ride, which makes them ... definitely not racist and their american-exceptionalism-snowflake sensibilities would rather not be confronted with liberal policies because that really just sounds like "white shaming" to #realamericans.

GOT IT!

Oh for ****'s sake

Ohhhh, I see how it is now. Little baby Lestat's boy couldn't win an election against an evil she beast, so instead of doing what was right he decided to burn it all down.

Jesus this is rich coming from you considering what I just quoted. Every Hillary primary voter I know said "we must stick together and all come together to vote against Trump." A large number of Bernie primary voters I know were in the "Burn it down, not gonna vote for that *****, we got robbed." Bull**** camp.

You're in the latter regardless of who you ultimately voted for. YOU are the one who chose derision and apathy over coming together.

It's hilarious that Lestat can't stop spouting GOP talking points even though he totally never ever ever reads or watches anything right wing based guise

****ing moron.

I expect to have someone better to vote for than this war hawk in 2018.

Shocking that every Hillary voter wanted everyone to pull together to vote for Hillary!

Based off of what?

I don't know who specifically will run, but it's likely someone better than Feinstein will. The primary for Senate in California will have a fairly broad spectrum and the general is between the top two, which will probably be between two democrats as it was for Kamala Harris v Loretta Sanchez. Or perhaps some progressive party or independent.

i don't agree with him changing to be a good president, but why on earth would you even ask that BS leading question from a sitting senator anyway? JFC!!!

otoh, yes we should prepare for the worst, i.e. living with president id for the whole term.

She'll proly be so fugly by then, that looking upon her will turn her fellow congress-critters to stone.

Not defending Lestat here but the polling data and computer models used by political campaigns are often complete garbage. Nate Silver has written about this.

I don't think campaigns should be immune from criticism because they supposedly have access to super secret info or whatever. The Clinton campaign made several strategic mistakes that I think were obvious, and those mistakes were discussed here in real time.

This post could appear on Trump's twitter feed.

i hate that woman so much, she is ****ing worthless and stupid as ****

who the **** out of hillary supporters/dems itt has EVER alleged that the clinton campaign didn't make several strategic mistakes?

I dont even

I want to point out that one big tell that let's us know Lestat is full of **** is that while we, actual leftists and actual liberals, tend to criticize Clinton for doing things that we thought were mistakes...

Lestat's big issues with Clinton are literally right wing fiction, ripped from Trump stump speeches.

That's the thing that we go back to over and over again. If Lestat is telling the truth about everything it is BAFFLING that he voted for more food stamps to buy black votes and doing the Benghazi and racial divisiveness and not repealing Obamacare.

As an outsider, this is all impressive to me too. The strength of the Party brand is measured in holding market share of registrations, and holding market share in votes cast. The Donkeys are the dominant team. It's not even close.

Since the Vietnam War era, the Donkeys have relied primarily on transparent, open, and competitive primaries to democratically anoint their team for POTUSBOWL. This most recent POTUSBOWL, it worked perfectly as advertised. The most qualified, experienced, and popular Donkeys got on the team. Contrast this with the Elephants, whose primary process failed so catastrophically, that they ended up anointing the candlestick in the conservatory.

The problem is the Donkeys do indeed have a real and permanent structural disadvantage, which is baked not only into US federalism, but also into the underlying geographical based representational system itself.

Again, as an outsider, the take-away to me seems obvious: the problems the Donkeys are having are caused by the way the party itself is internally structured... and not by any failure of the "optics"/etc.

Basically like a slightly smarter, slightly less racist version of wil

I'm not sure why the difference between yours and FlyWf's tactics would move you to change your voting pattern or even call yourself different than a Democrat. The Democratic Party encompasses a range of people from people who think Trumpkins are onto something about minorites and the public opinion should sway to more critically look at minorities to those who won't even read books by white authors and talk about decolonizing themselves.