And one you’ll never get corporate-humping journalists to ask corporate-humping Democrats: Why are proposals from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders called “unrealistic” when the favorite centrist candidate, punch-drunk Joe Biden, is basing his campaign on the oh-so-realistic claim that Republicans will have an epiphany? That’s a fuck-ton less realistic than the idea that we can get universal health care if we fight for it.
If the problem with big proposals is that Republicans will fight them, why don’t “pragmatic” tools like Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have to explain how their inch-at-a-time plans will avoid the same fate? It’s not as if Obama was proposing progressive ideas — they were centrist and designed to appeal to Republicans, and none of them voted for those ideas.
In short, the media is putting its thumbs on the scale again, and not in favor of liberals. As Eric Boehlert pointed out last week, reporters can’t stop asking Wall Street people about Elizabeth Warren and printing their dire warnings. Why? Are we supposed to be surprised to learn that corporate poobahs and hedge-fund fucksticks won’t vote for a liberal? Since when is that news?