Glenn Ford says, with eloquent heat, exactly what I was thinking: that Michael Dyson’s brutal character assassination of Cornel West in the historically racist pages of the New Republic was, above all else, an application for a job in the upcoming Hillary Clinton administration. Ford writes:
There is much more in Ford’s piece; do read the whole thing. Meanwhile, Tarzie has also been on the case— one of the first out of the gate, actually — with an analysis that notes how useful West’s dissent has been to the Democratic Party … and why the Establishment, represented by Dyson, has now decided to tear him down. (Tarzie also comes up with one of the best encapsulations of the Democratic dynamic — especially regarding our earnest Digbian/Kossian progressives — that I’ve seen: “Of course, anguished support is the bread and butter of the Democratic Party, without which it would cease to exist.” Anguished support covers it all; the hand-wringing our progressives do as they are forced to support a politician who happily, eagerly oversees a global death machine and the most intensive, intrusive, pervasive surveillance operation in human history, who bailed out the banks instead of the people and left tens of millions submerged in debt and despair. Oh, how anguished they are, as they write millions of words in support of their leader and millions more in relentless attacks on his enemies and critics. The Israelis have another apt term for this sort of thing: “shooting and crying.”) Tarzie writes: |
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