Tuesday, July 21, 2015

How #BlackLivesMatter may wind up sinking the Democrats

When Janell Ross wrote a column at the Washington Post regarding “that Netroots Nation disaster” I thought it was going to be about the damage that was being done to progressives in general this season. She was discussing the awkward moment when an obviously angry crowd booed Martin O’Malley and (to a lesser extent) Bernie Sanders off the stage after the former dared say the phrase “white lives matter, all lives matter.” As it turns out, I was completely wrong. Ross was referring not to the PR disaster as it resonated outside of those hallowed halls, but to the failure of Democrat candidates to understand just how unforgivable O’Malley’s “gaffe” was at the event.


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