Shit Neolibs Say: The Democrat to Progressive Translator

Kathy Copeland Padden
Nov 4 · 3 min read

A handy-dandy guide to what Establishment Dems say as opposed to what they mean.

Photo by Blog for Arizona

Purity tests are bad: We’re not obliged to meet the standards we expect the GOP to uphold.

Joe Biden isn’t a creepy kid groper: Photographic evidence is no match for my cognitive dissonance.

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Kathy Copeland Padden

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is a political junkie and history buff alternating between bouts of crankiness and wry amusement while bearing witness to the Apocalypse. Come along!

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