Jerome Nicolas

Move fast and spray things.

Obama's obviously worried about his legacy after saddling us with Biden. Maybe he also wants atonement. Either way, he can read the writing on the wall and that's another welcome sign that centrism's finally dying after decades of grift.

Of course, I thought that in 2008 when Obama snubbed a DLC event in Chicago to shoot hoops and get a haircut. The organization formally croaked a few years later in 2011. It didn’t survive his first term. Alas, I read too much into that.

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

But, getting back to the attacks on Omar and El-Sayed, it seems to me that centrist Democrats don't really want Democrats to take back Congress for some reason. I'm just inferring from their behavior, especially recently. Anyway, here's that book I mentioned: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

I'm not just making a character assessment here: I'm also explaining how societies work. Valuing other people outside your community is a huge factor in how well wider society functions. Bigotry sabotages society, whereas recognizing others' equal rights makes things go a whole lot smoother.

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

This isn't just about bigotry. They're greedy too. And they all have, at best, a weak allegiance to the civic virtues that hold any free society together. It's all related. They're not big on universal principles, universal tolerance, or universal healthcare. They prefer to be selective instead.

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

That partially explains their terrible political behavior - the fact that they could get away with it. The other is that centrists genuinely like conservatives more than they do progressives. That's because they - like libertarian siblings - see themselves as the cool hip conservatives.

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

No, copying the GOP was not limited to cozying up to corporations and dismantling The New Deal and the Great Society. Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 campaign near Philadelphia, Mississippi and Bill Clinton did his 1992 one at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Such bigotry signaling is bipartisan.

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

I've been calling centrists "quislings" for years, but Newsom actually praises overtly racist figures like Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon, and Michael Savage. He brown-noses brown shirts. But it's completely consistent with centrist reflexes. Ezra Klien, Matt Yglesias, etc. are not much better:

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

As I say, "centrists are genteel libertarians." The differences are superficial, and authoritarian drift is among their more significant similarities. Witness the crackdowns on campus protests against the genocide in Gaza by "liberal" university administrators. Centrists also adore cops and wars.

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

This drift has been illustrated by the "libertarian to alt-right pipeline" that others have since written about. Yes, Peter Thiel said that freedom and democracy are incompatible, but libertarians have been saying this for decades already - since they were on the fringes (before the 1990s).

For years, lefties have said that centrist Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win with progressives. That claim has been repeatedly proven during this general election. See also their constant post-primary sabotage of Abdul El-Sayed.

Posting this classic 1948 Herblock cartoon because it remains forever relevant. In my 2014 book, I wrote that conservatives have always been hostile to liberty, equality, and democracy. Too many centrists and "libertarians" have similar tendencies. For example, Peter Thiel overtly opposes democracy.