NY-27

  The other day someone wrote a comment here about how the country is ready to explode in Civil War and all that's needed is a Ft Sumter incident. I don't agree but some kind of a half-assed insurrection would be a fitting and predictable denouement for the illegitimate, completely divisive Trump regime.

And the winner is... Not-TrumpThe Democratic candidate for president its probably the worst in my lifetime-- and I'm old. Let me think for a second.

My friend Frank Schaeffer hasn't been a Republican for many, many years and he is most certainly a #NeverTrumper. But he's been absolutely fiendish in his instinctual opposition to Bernie.

Trump with his favorite House Republican, Chris CollinsIt was always just a matter of time. Chris Collins really had no viable defense. He was caught in multiple violations of insider trading statutes.

Trump with his favorite House Republican, Chris CollinsIt was always just a matter of time. Chris Collins really had no viable defense. He was caught in multiple violations of insider trading statutes.

Want to see a right-wing nut's head explode?Big states often have big chunks of territory left over after the congressional districts are drawn, diverse counties and parts of counties that have nothing necessarily in common with each other but don'tfitinto the other districts. In California, the massive 8th district is like that.

On Saturday, Nate McMurray wrote, "Today I am officially declaring my candidacy in New York’s 27th congressional district. In some ways it seems like I never stopped.

Someone in Cheney's office came up with the wildly popular neo-con slogan, "Boys go to Baghdad, real men go to Tehran." Maybe it was Bolton? I'm not sure-- nor does it matter, because what I want to talk about today is that the DCCC goes to R+2 and +3 districts, while real men are looking to flip R+11 districts.In most parts of the country it takes all the skill a gerrymandered can muster to create an R+11 district.

Only Collins has been arrested so far but Reed sells his votes to fracking interestsThe most conservative congressional district in New York (NY-27) isn't one the DCCC thought was winnable. So they ignored it, allowing a progressive who backs Medicare-for-All, Nate McMurray, to win the primary.

For the past decade, the DCCC has been wrong about one of their most basic tenets-- to win in red districts candidates have to go-- or be-- GOP-lite. This has proven a disastrous, failed policy but one the DCCC has dug in on. This cycle, for example, nearly every single candidate they recruited and nearly every single candidate they are supporting with money is a New Dem or Blue Dog from the Republican wing of the party.