It’s My Party and I’ll Leave When I Want To by Rebecca Traister

There are many reasons the Democrats have been so feeble at meeting the currently moment of despotic threat from the current White House and the pathetic enablers in the Grand Old Party. I genuinely believe one of the key reasons is that so much of Democratic leadership is comprised of elderly figures who are still operating as if we’re in some past — which is more mythic than real — where policy disputes were simply a matter of degrees and the basic principles of the American experiment were agreed upon. It’s a flagrant failing that these politicians who’ve served for decades and held on well past a reasonable retirement date haven’t stepped aside to allow new leaders to emerge. Rebecca Traister writes about the situation with appropriate consternation. This piece is published by New York.

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies by Spencer Ackerman

Richard Bruce Cheney earned some appreciation from establishment Democrats for being one of the rare Republicans who adhered to lifelong beliefs and correctly identified that the party’s standard bearer for the past decade is a vapid huckster who cares about nothing but himself. That’s fine. It shouldn’t erase, however, that Cheney did untold damage to the nation and the world during his personal tenure in government. Writing for The Nation, Spencer Ackerman delivers the I-come-to-bury-Caesar-not-to-praise-him eulogy that Cheney deserve.