Josh Marshall: Toxicity, acrimony, unrealism of Sanders' campaign comes from the top

[Rose Siding]

6. I haven't been reading TPM much lately so I was glad to see this

I felt early on that Josh was giving the same kind of latitude to his pro-Sanders readers and writers that admin does here. I guess he's come around. This is good, too-

Grandiosity As Addictive As Smack

With this new blow-up over whatever happened over the weekend in Nevada we see the pretty real and even dire consequences of lying to your supporters. The Sanders campaign, especially campaign manager Jeff Weaver, has been saying for weeks that Sanders can still win and that the system is 'rigged' against Sanders. But the situation in Nevada is really a microcosm of the dynamic I described last month: to the extent the system is 'rigged', it's mainly rigged in Sanders' favor.
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As I said in the lede, this is the problem with lying to your supporters. Losing is hard. If you pump people up with bogus arguments that they're losing because they got cheated and the system was rigged, you get people who are really angry, genuinely angry, even though they're upset that their efforts to reverse the result of the actual election didn't work.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/grandiosity-as-addictive-as-smack