David Sirota, The Democrats are Trying to Lose

David Sirota How party leaders learned to stop worrying and love losing to GOP fascists. [Editor’s note: What I find fascinating about this article is that the author, David Sirota, is a true-believer that the Democrats are the “good guys” and the Republicans the “bad”, when the cases he adduces that the DEMs are trying to throw the election represent what the party has become.] Cognitive dissonance is one of the defining traits of American politics, but with this weekend’s blow against the Build Back Better bill, we’ve now reached an inflection…

David Sirota, Cuomo-gate: A Nixonian Scandal Is Engulfing New York

David Sirota Gov. Cuomo is threatening retribution against Dems demanding answers about underreported COVID deaths and his effort to help an industry group shield nursing home execs. The biggest political scandal in America right now is playing out in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in a lot of trouble — and rightly so. The Democratic governor did not merely wildly mismanage his state’s response to the COVID emergency, while netting himself a lucrative book deal and an Emmy. He did something worse. In the middle of a public health emergency,…