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"Do better": the ideological Taylorism of liberal activism
How to come up with any voter demographic argument you want
Notes on wrestling, Part III: The athletes
Trump’s GoFundMe donors did more to help Trump in North Carolina than Jill Stein
Hillary Clinton’s incrementolution
Relax – or, Why I Will Not Be Voting For Hillary Clinton
Crony capitalism is bad, but cronies are very good
Gaslighting, ironyboarding, and the ideological privation of language
Clinton’s coordination with journalists is normal and good, which is why they hide it
Notes on wrestling, Part II: The business
Notes on wrestling, Part I: Introduction
Clay Shirky opposes acts of political principle and conscience – except when they support Trump
Why do Trump voters say they support Trump?
Perhaps Trump is a good opportunity to rethink presidential democracy
How do gender *and* age shape the electoral college?
Trump’s tape vindicates the left-feminist critique of liberalism
Harold Myerson thinks we have a white racist millennial Clinton-defector problem. He’s wrong.
Shunning is mostly performative and the left has usually opposed it
Poverty increases political polarization among race groups
Some intersectional analysis on the Trump and Clinton coalitions
Did Clinton start the birther controversy? No. Did she abet it? Of course
The garbage pseudoscience that passes for capitalist apologetics
Why Kevin Drum thinks that Millennials are dupes
Some points on Marx and ageism
"Both sides do it" is a reactionary defense of ageism
The purity politics of radical liberalism, part II
The Quadrennial Elite Pundit Meltdown
Young people hate democracy, prefer Clinton to Trump
CPUSA gives Democrat quadrennial meaningless endorsement
"A cheap theory with a fancy-sounding name"
Grifting, co-option, and a dialectic of resistance
Trump’s supporters aren’t being fooled – they know that he’s lying.
Gallup’s explanation of support for Trump is intersectional leftism 101
LOL no you should not vote for Donald Trump
Why is Clinton using Trump to promote Republicans?
The blatant racism of liberal Russophobia
The false realism of lesser-evil voting
The DNC emails show the Democratic coalition is a farce
Trump’s convention speech previewed the future of fascism
Why the media feels comfortable bashing the GOP
Liberal pragmatists never talk about the long term
What Sanders’ black staffers actually said
The John Birch Society’s statement on Dallas is identical to liberal red-baiting
Identitarian deference and organizing
Young voters have leverage on Clinton, and they should use it
Two perspectives on lesser-evil voting: elite liberals, and the working class
Charles Blow is confused about intersectionality because he wants to downplay class
Notes on ageism, Pt. II: On the objections
Notes on ageism, Pt. I: You can’t have capitalism without ageism
Will Clinton’s feminists speak out against two-party patriarchy?
Capitalists are fine with censorship
Sotomayor’s dissent probably doesn’t matter
The liberal discourse-gaming argument against riots is pretty silly
If you obsess over online discourse policing, you’re probably a capitalist
Marxism and identitarian politics
Clintonites agree: my analysis of black votes is obviously correct!
Heightism is next – capitalism is never
The future of the Democratic Party: Unity and social democracy
Black voters and the 2016 primaries, Part 3: Turnout for what
Note on identitarian methodology
Hillary Clinton’s historic achievement*
FFS get Gamergate out of my mentions
Lorde – on race, class, and solidarity
Oppression and identitarian error
The oppression of Clinton supporters
Yes, Bros4Hillary is a part of Clinton’s million dollar troll campaign
Identitarian demographic arguments have to account for non-voters
Would Gore have gone to war in Iraq?
Did Michelle Goldberg just admit to coordinating an attack on Sanders with the Clinton campaign?
Who is the greater enemy of the left?
The pseudoscience of liberal discourse gaming
Kevin Drum’s scathing critique of Bernie Sanders, Kevin Drum
The future of bourgeois press and the end of the media elite
The Sanders youth vote and the ratchet effect
Clinton’s climate science denial
Temporarily embarrassed executive editors
Leftists have a good critique of Emmett Rensin’s "smug" essay. Liberals? Not so much
Who got owned by Clinton’s million dollar troll campaign?
Of course the "Bernie Bro" smear was a PR campaign
Popular language use and the propaganda of isolation
Sanders critics adopting the libertarian position on climate change
There’s no good argument for the liberal prohibition of heckling
On blocking and the pathology of feud
Anticommunist testimony and the red-baiting of Bernie
Check out the latest Chapo Trap House y’all
Calling it: Safe-state "leftist" Clinton advocates will not campaign for Jill Stein
Ds will rally around the nominee – but not because they like it
Sanders on foreign policy: basically fine
The obvious hypocrisy of pro-outsourcing punditry
How did media get it so wrong on Sanders and banking?
RE: Clinton 2016’s "The facts on where the race stands"
The privilege of #NeverHillary’s aging critics
If you’re concerned about money in politics, stop gaming the FEC
EXPLAINER: Yes liberals, red-baiting is Bad
Five demographic arguments for Bernie Sanders
Tomasky just wrote another hack article
How to social engineer women, pickup artists, and everyone you know
Clintonites are kicking young people out of the Obama coalition
The outrage over Sanders’ "media coverage" comment is privileged and creepy
#BernieMadeMeWhite: Clinton and the new three-fifths rule
Why Clinton made that AIDS comment
Conason and Pollitt discovers the Naderbros
Michigan: a crack in the firewall
The "mental illness" smear of Sanders is nonsense
Hillary Clinton’s intersectionality
Clinton’s Democratic opposition twice as hard as Sanders’
The science of the Frankfurt School
Yes, the libertarians want to bring back feuding
Republicans have a more rational anti-Trump strategy than the Clintonites
Black voters and the 2016 primaries, Part 2: The establishment firewall
The Post’s semantic analysis of Sanders supporters on Twitter is a good step forward
Black voters and the 2016 primaries, Part 1: Name recognition
The "English only" smear on Sanders supporters wasn’t just a mistake
Kesha and the failure of liberal feminism
Sanders punditry, and some armchair psychoanalysis
Scalia’s jurisprudence was radically, objectively stupid
Anti-harassment politics and the problem of co-option
Foreign policy trivia is not foreign policy knowledge
Love when Vox gives a platform to the right-wing cranks at George Mason University
What impact is "socialism" having on the election?
Is gender driving the Clinton vs. Sanders generation gap? Nope.
Her Turn 2: Revenge of the PUMAs
If you thought Hillary’s Iowa youth vote was a disaster, look how hard she tried
Amanda Taub accidentally reveals how the "Bernie Bro" smear works
Of course journalists can be shills
David Roberts’ read on Democratic vulnerabilities is exactly backwards
What’s the deal with the Iverson Twitter avi?
Clinton’s war against the young finally getting real
A brief note on victim deference and demands for evidence
How many smears on Sanders supporters can we debunk in one week?
Why add that they support Sanders?
Jamil Smith’s theories about Sanders have no basis in the polls
Clinton’s numbers drop; Krugman argues that they can’t
A vote against Sanders is a vote against single-payer – even if he can’t pass it.
Are reparations and single-payer equally unlikely?
Clinton’s utopian health care dreams are obviously politically impossible
The Matt Bruenig Election Team has called the Democratic age divide for months
LOL, war against North Korea is a really terrible idea
What do Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have in common?
The Trump confidence game analysis has no basis in fact
Why are Bill Clinton’s alleged crimes and scandals relevant to Hillary?
Young women aren’t "complacent" – they’re struggling
The Oregon insurgency has already failed