Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track

Sahil Kapur, quoting Nancy Pelosi in a Bloomberg* article:

“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said at a roundtable of Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Friday. “What works in Michigan works in San Francisco — talking about workers’ rights and sharing prosperity.” […]

“As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: What are you thinking?” Pelosi said. “You can ask the left — they’re unhappy with me for not being a socialist.”

Pelosi has a good point here, that points to a larger problem in American politics. Yes, someone needs to get Donald Trump out of the White House, but we’re never going to heal the divide between the left and right if we don’t stop the pendulum of political power and public opinion from swinging so wildly, back and forth every few years. Installing an anti-Trump “savior” won’t necessarily make things better, it will just swap the roles of which group gets to be the indignant victims and which gets to be the vindicated idiots. We’ve got to collectively take steps toward one another, not run in opposite directions.

*Quick note to remind readers that last year, Bloomberg was the publication that put out “The Big Hack”, a sensational piece by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley which claimed that many American companies, including Apple and Amazon, were having data siphoned from their servers by a tiny, Chinese military unit designed chip which had made its way onto their motherboards during production in Chinese factories without the companies’ knowledge. All parties involved denied the claims made by the Bloomberg reporters after conducting internal investigations which yielded no evidence that such tampering had occurred. Bloomberg has offered no evidence to corroborate their “reporting”. By all accounts, it seems like The Big Hack was a big farce. Until Bloomberg retracts the story or corroborates it, their institutional credibility must be questioned.