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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

2016 was the apathy election

Trump’s GoFundMe donors did more to help Trump in North Carolina than Jill Stein

Nothing polite to say

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

Notes on wrestling, Part II: The business

Notes on wrestling, Part I: Introduction

What is discourse gaming?

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.

The blame-the-kids two-step

Unpacking "alt-"

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

Bro essay postscript

Bros are actually good

Who trusts Clinton?

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

Chin up

Marxism and identitarian politics

A word on religious violence

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*

On tenure and civility

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

Chomsky, on simplicity

Would Gore have gone to war in Iraq?

You have a choice

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

It don’t make no difference

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

A word for young leftists

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

How journalists sell out

The "mental illness" smear of Sanders is nonsense

Hillary Clinton’s intersectionality

Whose motives can we impugn?

Clinton’s Democratic opposition twice as hard as Sanders’

The abyss gazes into you

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

Another iteration of the odd anti-economism critique

More rich people challenging democratic sovereignty