Something I find really unsettling and frankly, kind of insulting, is that so many of these progressive upstarts are running in local districts on carbon copies of the Sanders national platform.  It’s like they’re out to represent national progressives rather than their actual constituents.

I live in the Rio Grande Valley, south-fucking-Texas. Our population has quadrupled and our GDP has doubled since NAFTA.  Yet our progressive primary challenger (Jessica Ciseneros) to our Democratic Rep (Henry Cuellar) promised to fight for the repeal of NAFTA because it “takes American jobs”.

Ciseneros was literally just Bernie as a representive candidate and towed his line almost to perfection. This earned her instant social media stardom. 

Anyway, Cuellar won his primary and now Jessica’s a never-Biden Bernie delegate or something.