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Originally Posted by Adder
I'm not sure why Warren or Beto are on your list. For Warren, is it just that she's a woman? Because "old white lady who wants to help" doesn't seem all that threatening to the fragile white people you're talking about.
I think the national perception of Beto paints him as a lot more progressive than he actually has been, so I'm not sure he actually scares those people either (although that also makes him less viable too).
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I don't see why Beto is in the race. (Or any race, really.) He's a whiffle candidate. He only gave Cruz a run for his money because Cruz is between #4 and #8 on the list of Most Loathed Human Beings on Planet Earth of every breathing American. And the residents of quite a few other countries. (bin Laden only makes #6 in some circles.)
When
Vanity Fair did a spread on Beto a few months back, I was depressed. Not because they gave ten pages and Annie Leibowitz to this McCandidate. Because I knew Graydon Carter's influence had been erased. A
Spy veteran who coined "short fingered vulgarian" as a Trump descriptive would never countenance that tripe.
I still have the
New Yorker and the
Atlantic. The former remains, however, in desperate need of an editor who can rein in the writers. No one needs five pages of background. Faulkner would find the magazine indulgent.
