The new poster boy for the Clinton campaign.

I know politics ain’t beanball and all that shit, but watching Clinton and her supporters gleefully attack Sanders for having correctly opposed Reagan’s interventionist policy in Nicaragua and having correctly argued that it was foolish to expect the people of Nicaragua to rise up in support of a US intervention in their country just like it was foolish of us to expect the people of Cuba to rise up in support of the Bay of Pigs invasion is just depressing.

I grew up in Miami in the 60’s and ‘70s. I’m intimately familiar with the politics of the area. This ain’t the ‘70s any more so while I think y’all scored a bit with this I don’t think it’s quite the killer shot you hope it is (those who will take it most to heart weren’t going to vote Bernie anyway.)

But in the meantime for the love of whatever you hold dear please consider the damage you’re doing to the Democratic brand and the Clinton brand by going all-in supporting fucking Reagan’s Nicaragua policy. You really want to tie yourselves even loosely in the minds of progressive voters with support for interventionism in Central America, mining fucking harbors, arming and training death squads who went around murdering priests and nuns, and all the other shit that was going on at our behest in those years? Failing to be sufficiently anti-communist to support that shit is what you want to attack Sanders for?

Think! For God’s sake think! Aren’t we supposed to be for nuanced and thoughtful policy as opposed to “Commies bad, America fuck yeah!”?