Krystal Ball has no leftist reason to shrink from interrogating Bernie Sanders, and there is no leftist reason to attack her, or any leftist pundit, for doing so. Because "white supremacy"?
DiMaggio's and the Shortstops' shallow, fear-mongering instrumentalization of terms like "white supremacy" and "fascism" as synonyms for "Trump"--their omnipotent villain--explains nothing. They function as scare terms, directed to leftists, who already reject the Republicans, to push them away from thoroughly understanding the deeply pernicious role of the Democratic Party in creating the very problems that those terms seek to analyze.
I'm concerned that we are seeing the unfolding of that nasty, often-forewarned, political reverse psychology: "Anti-fascism" becomes the banner under which the most effective enablers of fascism in the world (Ukraine, Latin America) do their work; "anti-racism" becomes the banner under which the policies most harmful to black people (for-profit healthcare, student-loan debt, marijuana drug war, wage-slave minimum wage) are maintained and extended, et al. But Caitlin Johnstone.
Because if you want to identify the villain, you can't hide half of its face: It's not "Trump," it's "Trump vs. Biden" (and "Trump vs. Clinton") that captures the true image of the ugly mug of "neoliberal, plutocratic" and imperialist American politics-neofascism, white-ethno-religious supremacism and all.
I may be way out in left field, but I can see who's trying to get around me and ends up playing center.
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