This space saved to discuss tonight’s debate.
I predict that Andrew Yang will become a much wider known candidate after tonight. I think Pete Buttigieg will too. Bernie will gun for Biden as the establishment candidate.
what do you think?
Last night belonged to Elizabeth Warren imo. Beto should drop out. Awful performance.
I cannot watch these things. I get the most profound sense of cringe at seeing the virtue signaling and performing. I get that we haven’t come up with a better way to do this, but my god, we’ve completely signed ourselves over to whoever wins a raw popularity contest. Like I couldn’t get past two minutes last night. Ick. Once I understood that consuming national politics has asymptotically zero instrumental value—it’s value is in how it makes you feel—I just filter it all out. Call me privileged.
When Trump entered office I followed US politics much more closely for a while. It took me a while but reading Fire & Fury was for me the moment I decided I did not get anything of value out of this soap opera. I still care about the bigger picture, but there's not much interesting IMO here unless you're into political speculation. The bigger picture that I do find interesting is that it seems to me is how radically left the Dems can or cannot be. I wonder what the party would look like with more AOC's at the top.
Harris also owned all of the post debate spin. She’s going to take a lot of minority support from Biden. He really shit the bed. No Yang :( he had 2 min of speaking time. It was such an awful format. NBC failed both debates. Badly. Buttigieg could be the candidate. I think he will shine when the field narrows.
Kamala Harris coming out strong! Loved the food fight line.