I said to Kate last night that looking at the DSA roster, and looking at El-Sayed and his backers, and so on, it feels like there IS this Jesse Jackson-esque Rainbow Coalition legacy here. that was just this butt of ridicule and scorn in a lot of places during the Bush years, as I remember it. no coincidence the FUD around El-Sayed's win (he "underperformed"? you don't get to warp to the Bonus Stage and get extra lives if you get an 8% swing lol) come from former war on terror ghouls