Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Yeah, They're Going To Support Trump: Footnote On "Majority" Report As A Tool Of Putin-Trumpian Propaganda

As I'm typing this Sam Seder on his Majority Report* just finished talking to Dave Weigel to badmouth the certain Democratic nominee and other Democrats.  Dave Weigel's wikipedia page has a rather extensive record of who he supported and voted for in recent elections, since I'm sure no one else in the world would give a pint of spit for that information except Weigel, himself, I assume he wrote it.  Among other qualifications he has for lecturing Democrats and the real left are:

In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Weigel voted for Ralph Nader, and served as a Delaware college elector for Nader.[8] In the 2004 election, Weigel voted for John Kerry. Weigel later wrote that "[he regrets] the Nader vote, but not the Kerry vote, as a weak Democratic president with a conservative Congress would have been pretty tolerable in retrospect".[8] He voted for Jack Ryan in the Illinois United States Senate election, 2004 Republican primary.[9]

In early 2007, Weigel became a registered Republican in the Washington, D.C. area,[10][11][12] in order to vote for Ron Paul at the Republican primary stage of the 2008 presidential election.[13] In November 2008, Weigel voted for Barack Obama, explaining "I really don't think McCain has the temperament to be President or the interest in standing up to a Democratic Congress....I've got the luxury of a guilt-free, zero-impact vote in the District of Columbia, which I would cast for Bob Barr if he was on the ballot".[8]

In January 2011, Weigel stated that he had voted for Republican Patrick Mara in elections to the Council of the District of Columbia, and that he had voted for Mara "every time he's been on the ballot".[14]

In the Republican Party presidential primaries 2012, Weigel voted for Jon Huntsman, despite his having withdrawn from the race, because "If you looked past his whiff of a tax plan (Huntsman recommended using the flat rates that Simpson and Bowles recommended not using), the guy had a few good ideas."[15] In the 2012 general election, Weigel voted for Gary Johnson.

*  Seder is calling yesterday's primary the "Zombi primary," I doubt he'd be calling it that if his pipe dream of Bernie pulling off a win in a greatly reduced primary vote were what happened.  But it didn't.  I think it's pretty clear that the "majority" Sam Seder's reports for isn't the majority of Democratic voters or most voters who are not Trump supporters.  

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