... and 100% less Shirley Jackson:
From Brother Charlie Pierce:
Julian Castro's Story Should Cause the Democratic Party to Reflect on How It Chooses Candidates
In general, it should make the country melancholy about how we do politics in the age of big money.
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His was a righteous voice in this campaign for people whose voices are truly silent. We hear a lot about how the middle class feels that politics is deaf to their concerns. But we know what the boys in the diner think. Castro campaigned in soup kitchens, and in homeless shelters, and in small urban gardens, where the truly voiceless try to get from sunrise to sunset holding desperation at bay with a charity toothbrush and growing their own vegetables. He campaigned for the minority citizen whose guts clench when they see the red flashing lights of the squad car behind them on a dark road late at night, and for the teenager who has to worry about how fast he takes his hands out of his pockets. He spoke their names on the national stage—Philando Castile, Michael Brown, Laquon McDonald, Sandra Bland, and the others—like a sad litany out of a cathedral history. He dared us to say the names, too.
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Castro was my immediate pick to be Warren's veep. Still hoping for that, actually.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I was surprised at how sad I felt at his announcement. He wasn't my first choice but I was glad he was in the lineup. Charlie Pierce nails it, as usual.
Castro dared to say a lot of things, like Moscow Mitch during a Democratic debate.
The ghoul who, at HUD, oversaw the largest evaporation of black wealth in the history of the United States and didnt even make a noise was *definitely* out there for the little guy.
No one liked him, and it shouldnt be some dark revelation that he is now gone.
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