Rachel Maddow: SCOTUS and 2016

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18. I share your weariness

as posted at the beginning. And I was also an Edwards supporter. One of about 233 at my precinct convention (all the rest Obama or Clinton, with most of the Obama supporters young and new to the process, and some African Americans among the Hillary caucus who thought the country just wasn't ready for a black man to be president).

I thought Edwards was a man of decency, integrity, and who understood the plight of the middle class. Laughable now, yes? One out of three ain't a passing grade.

As time and the primary season passed, some Clinton supporters -- they called themselves PUMAs; see also here -- held a grudge, but I feel certain most of that melted away by November of 2016 (though this recent New Repub article takes exception with that premise). I can recall being at the Texas Democratic Party convention in May of 2008 on that Saturday afternoon when Hillary Clinton conceded the nomination to Obama. I saw grown men cry -- older white rural gimme-cap men in blue jean overalls.

The next day I saw some delegates wearing T-shirts that said "NObama" on the back.

So yeah, we Democrats have some mitigating to do with each other (especially in Texas, where we fight with each other over 40% of the statewide vote).