Wednesday Open Thread [4.20.16]

Wednesday Open Thread [4.20.16]

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Congratulations to the winner of the New York Primary and the presumptive 2016 Democratic nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Democratic Presidential Primary is over. Going forward, in order to promote unity, I will not insult or otherwise attack or criticize Bernie Sanders or his supporters in my comments. And I understand some of you are still in denial and will enter a primal scream phase soon enough, if you are not already there, so I will not engage you over that. Some of you no doubt will proclaim that you will vote for Trump before you vote Hillary. That's fine, I will not engage, I will let you work through it. And I am sure I am insulting some of you right now because you think this little speech is condescending. So I apologize for that. What I will do, however, is still post excerpts of the punditry that is relevant to our politics. Some of that may not speak of Sanders in glowing terms. Indeed, there is a Jonathan Chait piece below that some will find unpleasant. But I won't offer my usual asides and commentary.

What should Sanders do now?

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So now what? I can tell you that the answer to that question is not as straightforward as TV talking heads will have you believe. In the fishbowl universe of TV talking heads the choice is binary. Sanders has two choices. 1) Keep going and thereby "hurt" the presumptive nominee. or 2) Quit - and thereby "help" the presumptive nominee. That formulation is obviously stupid and reductive.