POLITICS

The Angry Democrat

There is a strong case to be made for a new type of political candidate on the Left.

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I think there is a strong case to be made for a new type of political candidate on the left. The upset, annoyed, intelligent, arrogant, passionate intellectual who doesn’t care what you think. The Angry Democrat.

Bernie Sanders fit that bill but Black Americans didn’t buy into it. They didn’t believe that white America would vote for the angry Jew from Vermont with the crazy ideas, and he got taken out in the primaries. Hillary Clinton could have been that candidate but she made the mistake of listening to people who said she needed to be more likable. She ran a focus group campaign when she could have mopped the floor with the competition. She could have run circles around anyone else running, but instead, she was told to concern herself with not being bitchy. What we needed was a bitch on wheels.

Politics in America is a popularity contest, in the extreme. But we’re a funny bunch of idiots. We don’t actually know what we want, and we don’t understand the choices we make. But one thing that Americans consistently like is a fighter.

There are those who will argue that promoting a combative candidate will only give the right something to fight about but this…