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Terrorism has struck the United Kingdom again. Not long after the recent Manchester attack that killed over 20 people, mostly teenager, after an Ariana Grande concert, six people were killed in separate attacks on London Bridge and the nearby Borough Market. The Guardian added that at least 30 people have been taken to hospital, with three suspects being shot and killed by police. A white van was said to have plowed into pedestrians on the bridge, continuing into the Borough Market, where stabbings occurred. As thoughts and prayers are offered for the victims of this attack, Hollywood liberals continue their streak of being just abjectly inappropriate. Actress Bette Midler tweeted, More sorrow and grief at the hands of madmen in London. Men and religion are worthless. Yeah, you can file that under not helping. Seriously? People are dead and you decided to peddle this crap, Betty?

Author Reza Aslan, who ate human brains on his documentary series on CNN in March, went on to call President Trump a piece of s**t. it was in response to the president reaffirming the need to implement the travel moratorium in his executive order thats currently in legal limbo.

This is yet another tragic attack on our ally. Lets hope and pray for swift justice.

UPDATE: Aslan deleted the tweeted and offered an apology.

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As self-evident as it may seem to liberals that the Trump presidency has been a disaster and is doomed to defeat, the daily cycle of scandal and outrage that dominates social media is no substitute for a viable presidential candidate. And the Democratic Party, it seems, has yet to learn the key lessons of Hillary Clintons failure in 2016. While Donald Trump has already filed paperwork for his re-election campaign, Democrats are facing a distressingly shallow bench of potential challengers. Trump may be flirting with an all-time low approval rating, but many of the politicians maneuvering to challenge him are not necessarily in a much stronger position.

There are the usual buzzed-about hopefuls, of course, that remain beloved on the left, including Joe Biden, who just launched his own political action committee, and Elizabeth Warren, whose progressive credentials are unimpeachable. But Biden would be 78 by the time he would assume the presidency, and Warrenwhether or not you believe herhas said repeatedly that she isnt running. The remaining names on the 2020 shortlist, meanwhile, are a pretty motley crewand sure to leave a bad taste in many liberals mouths.

Axioss Mike Allen surveys the field:

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe: He has talked extensively with friends and advisers about running. The guy has boundless energy, ambition and access to money and the personality and love of the game to withstand the grind and glare of politics.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.): She has met privately with top party officials and just hit California to raise money and her profile. Make no mistake: She wants to run. But that doesn't mean she will.

Mark Cuban: He considers himself a smarter, better-looking and more authentic version of Trump. He has coin, ambition and comfort in his own skin. Of all the CEO/celebrities, he's the most likely to plunge into the shark tank of politics.

Rahm Emanuel: He has not given any signals he'll run, but friends tell us the Chicago mayor thinks he has a better read than the others on what it takes for a Democrat to win in today's America. That said, he runs a city with huge murder and money problems.

There are other names on Allens list, too, such as Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. Some names, like Gillibrand and Harris, may have some promise. But the rest may as well have been grown in a lab by Republican scientists in order to guarantee a Democratic defeat. McAuliffea major fundraiser with longstanding ties to the Clintonshas a storied history of sketchy business dealings, was investigated by the F.B.I. for receiving $120,000 from a Chinese-owned business, and aided the campaign of the wife of a F.B.I. official investigating Hillary Clinton. Cuban is a billionaire with few ties to progressive politics whose Trump-lite demeanor should come with its own trigger warning. Emanuel has made few friends by clashing with liberal activists, the Chicago teachers union, and Black Lives Matter. Booker is, to some, an inveterate opportunist whose reach exceeds his grasp. (Then there is the matter of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who remains a villain in progressive circles despite his recent attempts to shift left.)

After an election in which nearly half of Democratic voters were galvanized by a radical progressive firebrand in Bernie Sanders, and subsequently left disillusioned by Clintonism, the left seems to be stumbling toward another electoral shellacking as the proto-primary field fills up with potential candidates reflecting some of the Democratic Partys worst instincts.

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Are Democrats Trying to Lose in 2020? - Vanity Fair

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Elite Condescension and Democrats New York Times Re The Dumb Politics of Elite Condescension (Sunday Review, May 28): Joan C. Williams says Democrats need to address the working-class revolt against global elites. No; Democrats need to figure out why the party of the poor, the working class and ...

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ANNAPOLIS The next election is more than a year away, but Marylands Democrats are trying to convert current discontent about the Trump administration into an organization that can reverse Democratic party losses next year.

State party leaders launched what it called The Summer of Resistance and Renewal Saturday with a small rally in Annapolis, shifting ahead by a full year the traditional timeline to organize volunteers for the 2018 election.

Maryland Democrats hold a supermajority in both chambers of the State House, all but one spot in the states 10-member congressional delegation and a 2-to-1 voter registration advantage.

But despite their dominance in statewide politics, Marylands Democrats say they lack the infrastructure and organization to prevent another round of big losses like those in 2014, when Republican Gov. Larry Hogans upset win put him in the governors mansion and GOP politicians made gains in local offices across the state.

Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Matthews said the early organizing effort comes from a place of humility.

The Democrats have learned their lesson from 2014, she said. The Democratic Party was taking its registration advantage for granted and, to be honest, allowed its party apparatus to atrophy.

The party is banking on outrage against President Donald Trump to help Democrats refocus and rebuild.

Trumps first few months in office have sparked increased civic engagement among many in Maryland, which Hillary Clinton won in November by 26 percentage points. Democratic party leaders say the type of energy that prompted the Womens March in Washington and spontaneous protests at airports after Trumps travel ban wont translate into political victories unless they organize now.

We cant take for granted that the so-called Donald Trump effect is going to bring people out, Democrat Rep. John P. Sarbanes told a crowd of about 200 people gathered in front of the State House. We have to make it happen.

Maryland Republican Party Chairman Dirk Haire said the states minority party suffered decades of losses when it relied on angry conservatives. Haire welcomed what he described as Democrats trying the same failed approach.

As weve learned on the Republican side of aisle, anger is not a strategy, Haire said. Its never worked for Republicans. I dont see why it would work for Democrats.

Although Democrats far outnumber the states Republicans, unaffiliated voters make up the fastest-growing group of voters in the state. Haire said Republicans intend to rely on data and focusing on specific races, and he said early Democratic efforts wont affect those plans.

Were going about our business in a smart and strategic way, Haire said. Well leave the screaming to the Democrats.

The GOP wants to make Hogan Marylands first two-term Republican governor in a half-century, as well as end the Democrats supermajority in the legislature. The next governor will oversee how congressional and state legislative districts are redrawn after the 2020 census, so the person at the helm of state government could be able to tip the balance of political power for a decade.

Maryland Democrats are also dealing with the same schism that divided the party nationally after the prolonged primary between Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, activists said. Matthews said the party was also in store for a vigorous primary contest up and down the ballot. At least eight Democrats have expressed interest in challenging Hogan, for example.

The important thing is to stay true to who our real enemy is, Matthews told the crowd. We need to bring progressives into our pary, and have their voices be part of the exuberance.

Already, Matthews has held summits with progressive groups from across the state, urging their leaders to join forces.

On Saturday, Sheila Ruth with Progressive Democrats of Baltimore County joined the rally. She warned the crowd that the if the party did not come together to address the social and economic concerns that prompted people to vote for the president, then Trump will be followed by another Trump.

Joseph Kitchen, president of the Young Democrats of Maryland, said that even though Maryland is widely considered a blue state, rank-and-file Democrats need to realize that theyre losing local races in areas that were once Democratic strongholds. He pointed to the mayoral races in Annapolis and Frederick, and to the county executive race in Howard County all jurisdictions rich with Democrats but led by a Republican.

Hogan spokesman Doug Mayer downplayed the significance of a Democratic rally held right outside the governors home.

We dont pay a lot of attention to partisan politics and politicians, he said. The governor will remain focused on doing whats best for Maryland,

Rep. John Delaney, a Potomac Democrat weighing a bid against Hogan, told the crowd the must do more, and the must do more in local races.

Were not going to take back the country and advance the policies we care about by complaining about Trump, he said.

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Some of the Democratic Partys technology and data experts expressed deep frustrations this week after Hillary Clinton appeared to attribute some of her troubles in the 2016 presidential election to the partys own campaign and fundraising team.

Appearing at the Code Conference on Wednesday, Clinton charged that the Democratic National Committee was bankrupt and on the verge of insolvency by the time she won the partys nomination for the White House. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong, Clinton explained. I had to inject money into it.

The sharp rebuke certainly drew jeers from Republicans, including Clintons victorious opponent, President Donald Trump, who tweeted in response that crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate.

But it also left some of the Democratic Partys veteran tech aides scratching their heads.

Josh Hendler, who previously served as the DNCs tech chief, took to Medium on Friday to lament the fact that Democrats are attacking each other a move, he said, thats detracting from other problems the Democratic Party has to confront on the technology and data front over the next few years.

For example, Hendler said that the DNC has not yet figured out how to make the best use of the data-driven groups, apps, tools and other services coming out of Silicon Valley in the wake of Trumps presidential election victory. Nor, he said, has the DNC offered much leadership in fostering uniformity around IT infrastructure, particularly at the state and local levels. That could have major cyber security implications: People say Russian hackers are coming back, but lets be honest they havent left, Hendler wrote.

And Hendler asked the party to take a greater role in working to set the record straight on fake news and combat[ting] troll armies. In that respect, at least, he and Clinton appear to share a common aim: The former secretary of state stressed at the Code Conference that Republicans had far outpaced Democrats in generating political content.

Earlier in the week, other DNC veterans similarly expressed unease with Clintons criticisms. In tweets that he later deleted, Andrew Therriault, who served as Democrats director of data science until 2016, called Clintons comments fucking bullshit. He said the DNCs voter models didnt have Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania looking even close to safe, even though Clintons team thought they knew better. (Clinton lost all three states.)

In his own series of tweets, John Hagner, who worked on governors races for Democrats in 2016, wrote that the data was never the problem:

I worked with DNC data every day last cycle, on winning Gov races. It was accurate and up-to-date and I'm grateful for their hard work.

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Democrats' tech experts fire back at Clinton's criticism of her own party - Recode