You say you want an honest conversation

Well, you know, we all want to change the subject...

Fantasy baseball cards? Via Topps Archives.

My favorite political scientist, Corey Robin, senselessly trolling me again:

Susan Sarandon says Trump’s election may help the revolution. Liberals scream, “IRRESPONSIBLE!”

The Democrats say that Trumpcare’s victory in the House will help the Democrats in 2018. Liberals say, “Strategy.”

Bernie Sanders says abortion shouldn’t be a litmus test. Liberals cry, “SOCIALIST CLASSBRO HATES WOMEN!”

Nancy Pelosi says—twice, second time even more strongly—abortion shouldn’t be a litmus test. Liberals say…almost nothing at all.

It’s almost as if we’re not really having an honest conversation about our disagreements.

It's almost as if Corey would prefer not to have an honest conversation about our disagreements.

Sarandon's celebrated remark (in an MSNBC interview with Chris Hayes)—

Chair and chair alike

My favorite shot from the last #DNCchair forum. These guys are friends. So should we all be, Democrats. That's the way #Forward. #DNCfuture pic.twitter.com/Cf0pftxNZM

— LyndaWoolard (@LyndaWoolard) February 25, 2017

I'm so old (as we say on the Twitter) I remember when the self-denominated progressive faction was looking on Labor Secretary Tom Perez as a kind of savior against those terrible corporate Democrats, maybe ten months ago—when somebody was talking him up as a vice presidential candidate for Hillary Clinton. Didn't work out, but that's another story. But Perez did have a very progressive reputation: "The most radical cabinet secretary since Henry Wallace headed agriculture," howled Breitbart before he'd even been confirmed. Bankers hated him for fighting racial discrimination in housing mortgages at the Department of Justice, and the representatives of capital (such as Sam Batman writing for The Hill) for his work at Labor: