Fabulous article by Corey Robin on the Bile & Bullshit of Clinton's Campaign

[Nanjeanne]

Talks about the Clinton McCarthyism
Sister Souljah
David Brock and his ridiculousness
How the Dem party has moved from liberalism to policies of what once were moderate Republicans
The whole reparations brouhaha
The "savant" versus the "naïf" narrative
And more.

Fantastic - and on point

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/23/1474410/--Bile-Bullshit-and-Bernie-17-Notes-on-a-Dismal-Campaign-by-Corey-Robin

[highprincipleswork]

1. Sister Souljah

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/hillary-clinton-reparations_b_9047760.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[cali]

2. Wow. How repulsive. How low can they go?

1. Clintonite McCarthyism

According to The Guardian:

The dossier, prepared by opponents of Sanders and passed on to the Guardian by a source who would only agree to be identified as “a Democrat”, alleges that Sanders “sympathized with the USSR during the Cold War” because he went on a trip there to visit a twinned city while he was mayor of Burlington. Similar “associations with communism” in Cuba are catalogued alongside a list of quotes about countries ranging from China to Nicaragua in a way that supporters regard as bordering on the McCarthyite rather than fairly reflecting his views.
This is becoming a straight-up rerun of the 1948 campaign against Henry Wallace. Except that Clinton is running well to the right of Truman and even, in some respects, Dewey. It seems as if Clinton is campaigning for the vote of my Grandpa Nat. There’s only one problem with this strategy: he’s been dead for nearly a quarter-century.

As was true of McCarthyism, it’s not really Sanders’s communism or his socialism that has got today’s McCarthyites in the Democratic Party worried; it’s actually his liberalism. As this article in the Times makes clear:

[m-lekktor]

3. This came through my facebook newsfeed about 5 times! it is quite a good read!

Corey Robin wrote an excellent book "The Reactionary Mind, Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Reactionary-Mind-Conservatism-Edmund/dp/0199959110

[Nanjeanne]

4. A great read

Read his book a few years ago. Really good. Thanks for reminding me.

[bbgrunt]

5. oooh, this guy is GOOD. Thanks for posting!