"Too often, reasoned debate on what’s broken with our political system and how to fix it is forgone in favor of gatekeeping and overheated squabbles over optics." @alexwstern.bsky.social on the distressing state of Democratic Party discourse:

The Discourse PartyThe Democratic Party needs centrists capable of self-criticism and leftists capable of self-discipline. The current state of the discourse militates against both.www.commonwealmagazine.org