I mean, look, I've tried to be as neutral as possible when I talk about party democracy.

I don't believe in maximum party democracy.

I am a Marxist-Leninist at heart.

I believe in a degree of democratic centralism.

And I believe that one of the things that the left has lost sight of is the value of discipline and internal discipline, right?

Yeah, I take that point.

And obviously, you know,

to me it's like there's front facing and there's sort of internal. And obviously, you should do

the best to vet your candidates and make sure you don't have to be putting out fires to begin

with. But there's also this part of me that saw what happened to Bernie and saw that

Bernie was being asked to apologize for every random flotsam and jettism that tweeted a thing, right?

It wasn't even things that were entirely outside of his control. It wasn't that he was

hiring people that then said a bad thing. You know, there was some unforced errors that happened

here and there. But the bulk of the sort of Bernie Bro phenomenon that he was forced to answer

for were randos on the

Twitter anonymous accounts that he was repeatedly asked to disavow in bad faith.

Oh, and I totally agree. Like, don't apologize for every single thing. This is not what I'm saying.

I'm not saying apologize for every single thing. I'm actually talking about one, right, prevention

is better than cure. Vet your fucking candidate. Absolutely. Absolutely. Look through their social media. If you have someone, look, this is where I'm really coming out with my like most Stalinist opinion. Those like huge internal party WhatsApps, which have like 500 people posting, shut them down, make them admin only. No useful work happens in them. Yeah, look, I hear you. Get people in a world where- Republicans had that WhatsApp leak where they were fully doing Hail Hitler memes and whatnot. And nobody gave a thing. Okay, but it's not just that they're held to different standards. Wait a minute. Like, we say that a lot on the left. Like, it's unfair. Okay, whatever, it's unfair. But it's also about how it's handled. It's also about how it's handled. They're just like, I refuse to apologize. I refuse to fire anybody. It's not a big deal. Keep it pushing. And they just absolve themselves of any accountability. They just take accountability off the table. Did you listen to the Tucker

Carlson, New York Times interview that was recently? I haven't yet. I haven't yet. I've got a

confess. I've been on holiday for a month. So this is my... No need to apologize for not

forcing yourself to endure like an hour plus interview of Tucker Carlson sitting down and talking

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