Live from La Farine: Duncan Black is anxious:
**: Hard to Kick the Habit: "Hope to be wrong, but suspect that team Clinton (very broadly defined)...
...will still be talking about BernieBros in September. I'm quite happy for Hillary Clinton to be the nominee, as I always thought she would be. I'm not happy with the months of 'we would have won it easy if not for these meddling kids who won't vote in November' rhetoric. Better figure out how to appeal to them. Stop calling them immature and stupid. The goal is to win, not to make early excuses for why you're going to lose.
Nah. After yesterday the word--and the obvious thing--is to stand down.
Mind you: The day will come when it will be time to gleefully and comprehensively trash people to be named later for Guevarista fantasies about what their policies are likely to do. The day will come when it will be time to gleefully and comprehensively trash people to be named later for advocating Comintern-scale lying to voters about what our policies are like to do. And it will be important to do so then--because overpromising leads to bad policy decisions, and overpromising is bad long-run politics as well.
But that day is not now. That day will be mid-November.
