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.gotten her on the record saying some progressive things, that hopefully may come back to bite her as she now veers right for the general. He won the conversation for sure.
One thing no HRC supporter ever explains is how HRC is actually going to "get anything done". The Rightwing despises her. They are going to gin up first year hearings and investigations that will take whatever mojo she comes in with.
Bernie is far from hated by anyone in Congress or in the Republican base. It's hard to see how HRC will be successful in any real way, other than the symbology of the first woman. But it will be an image of "woman as victim" and I wish more than anything we could have Elizabeth Warren who never needs that as her backup strategy.
Pretty depressing to me that the DNC engineered this as the Democratic nominee. We have seriousreally serious problems, but what we're going to get is four embattled years of "Clinton Scandal", whether real or imaginary. And the danger here is that the Clintons will concede more and more to the right, in an effort to save their own hides, as they always do. That's what "Clinton pragmatism" really decodes as. It's concessions the Clintons make to avoid the heat---- because there's just so much Clinton baggage. Didn't we do this for 8 years already?
I hope to God that Bernie keeps fighting like hell in the Senate for the policies he's got her on the record as supporting.