so, buttigieg is holding on in those early states, huh? he's consistently beating both sanders and warren in new hampshire, which neighbours both vermont and massachusetts. in a way, that's impressive.

and, you can see why everybody's going after him.

i didn't watch the debate, and i'm not going to, but if it was the moralistas ganging up on the gay guy like i imagine it was, and him basically calling them out on their hypocrisy for it like it looks like it was, they may have shot themselves in the foot and given him a boost. i don't know why bernie thinks his angry zealot routine is a winner; it's part of the reason he's losing.

the democratic party has entered a weird twilight zone where so many of it's talking heads grew up as republicans, and have a fundamentally different way to understand the world than most of their voters do. most people that lean democratic are basically nihilists, in practice if not in theory. this shit is just going to be weird to them. it's the kind of thing that you pull out after you win, and you need to go after swing voters, or disgruntled republicans that actually care about morals and don't see them in the existing right-wing paradigm. democrats are more prone to want to have a beer, smoke a bong, and tell you to fucking relax and stop judging people. harris at least realized that, even if the execution was so botched as to be comical. if the debate was angry bernie v chill & cool pete, i can tell you who won with actual democratic voters, regardless of what the polls say just right now.

again: this is why everybody's going after him. he has a cultural appeal in the actual party base that the other candidates just don't; he's the guy that the people that pay party dues and carry their membership card around with them are most likely to go for. and, like it or not, he's probably the future of the party.

he's still basically a log cabin republican from the all souls clique, working for a secret cabal of globalists connected to the legacy of cecil rhodes. he's not a good candidate for leftist voters. don't misunderstand me, here - i'm not endorsing this guy.

and he still has a hill to climb to beat biden, clearly.

but, the longer he sticks around, the scarier he gets.