(Experiences guilt pang) I am very sorry about your family but this is literally the first I heard about it.
Even if I have never been to Ferguson in my life and experienced a lot of what it meant through the veterans on Twitter in 2020 and even if Mike Brown should not have died that day and been left to lie in the street, it was very important that the St. Louis area had this experience grounded in very local problems and was not shocked by pure cultural politics the way a lot of comfortable media types were in 2020.
I saw Cori Bush for the first time opening for the Bernie rally at what at least was Kiel Auditorium in March 2020 (I must have stuck out at that rally as a thwarted Warren voter even by my choice of reading material on the train) and it appeared even then that she felt that she needed to put out an olive branch to more national progressives to get their support especially since it was understandable that against Lacy Clay she needed every ally she could get. It seemed so miraculous that she was actually able to win 4 years ago but she couldn't hang on to it. I will note the contrast with the many Republicans with no interest in practical governing who primary voters have not turned out of office.
(Experiences guilt pang) I am very sorry about your family but this is literally the first I heard about it.
Even if I have never been to Ferguson in my life and experienced a lot of what it meant through the veterans on Twitter in 2020 and even if Mike Brown should not have died that day and been left to lie in the street, it was very important that the St. Louis area had this experience grounded in very local problems and was not shocked by pure cultural politics the way a lot of comfortable media types were in 2020.
I saw Cori Bush for the first time opening for the Bernie rally at what at least was Kiel Auditorium in March 2020 (I must have stuck out at that rally as a thwarted Warren voter even by my choice of reading material on the train) and it appeared even then that she felt that she needed to put out an olive branch to more national progressives to get their support especially since it was understandable that against Lacy Clay she needed every ally she could get. It seemed so miraculous that she was actually able to win 4 years ago but she couldn't hang on to it. I will note the contrast with the many Republicans with no interest in practical governing who primary voters have not turned out of office.