Sounds like she’s almost crying right before the sigh.
The Joy Reid take is something though. Democrats need to figure out what to hell to do about the front-runner having supporters? He’s not a party member. Him winning is them losing and exactly the same as Trump winning.
Vict0ar is the definition of toxic. See his post above repeating the fake Trump conspiracy about Warren, or basically any of his other posts.
I guess the thing that makes many Trump and some Bernie supporters similar is that they get by grievance. It’s great fuel. I happen to agree with many of Bernie’s grievances and think they are based in reality, but I don’t think their reality is what primarily motivates many of his supporters.
However, if there is one thing I’ve learned since 2016 it’s that a basic attachment to reality is neither necessary nor sufficient to win an election. Candidates are better off stoking conspiracy theories, which are persistent in almost every society, because human beings are literally too dumb to vote based on anything more nuanced.
Afaict the conspiracy is that that helped her in any significant way. It’s like a slight step removed from affirmative action is why Barak Obama was successful.
One of the most toxic views out there is that just because you support the “right” candidate, that makes you better than the people who support the evil candidate and that you in no way share any of the dangerous, stupid character traits exhibited by the supporters of the evil candidate. In reality, the reason most people end up supporting one candidate over another is in large part due to circumstance, and you’re little better than many of the hardcore supporters of the evil candidate that you routinely mock.
I don’t know or care about if it helped her career. It’s really tough to know, and the only way you could find out is by interviewing a bunch of people who would look bad if they said anything but Liz earned her career every step of the way. And actually I’m sure that she did, she’s by all accounts brilliant.
What is indisputable is that she lied about her ethnicity, knowing she was overwhelmingly white, with a possible distant native ancestor whose name she didn’t even know. She listed herself as a “minority professor” in a law school directory. Filled out her bar card as American Indian. Had Penn change her identity from white to native on some form, a few years after she had been hired. Maybe it didn’t help her, but why do it at all? It is, as the kids say, not a good look.