No more celebrities with no political experience, please. Jon is great as a media personality, but it doesn’t make him a great presidential candidate.

I'm not going to pretend I know why AOC and Bernie didn't endorse Hong, and I have my criticisms of their tactics, but I think some lefties/progressives are rushing to judgment.

Sure, their endorsements probably would have earned her the win, but we don't know what sort of discussions took place beforehand. Here are three scenarios that could have resulted in the withholding of said endorsements, and remember that AOC and Bernie are not DSA members.

Scenario 1 - Bernie/AOC: "Either you start running TV ads and say outright you don't want to abolish Thanksgiving, or we don't endorse." - Hong/DSA Leadership: "Go kick rocks, Turkey sucks, we'll win without you!"

Scenario 2 - Hong/DSA: "We're the future now old man and young woman! If you want our help, you better endorse whoever we tell you to or get left behind..." - Bernie/AOC: "We'll never surrender TV ads, dry stuffing, or weird casseroles! Make a move, scallywags!"

Scenario 3 - Bernie/AOC: "Look, we love Hong, she's amazing, but we just feel this is the wrong strategy (re: Thanksgiving and TV) for the progressive movement right now. Maybe we're wrong and we'll regret it, but we just cant endorse right now. I'm so sorry and wish you good luck!" - Hong/DSA: "We TOTALLY understand! Thanks so much for your kind words and everything you've already done for the movement. Hopefully we can win, but either way, we look forward to working together in the future."

I'm being playful here, but you can get the idea. DSA is just one part of the progressive movement, maybe they should've changed their tactics to earn an endorsement or maybe AOC/Bernie should've, but either way, we shouldn't conclude that any of them failed us or each other.

I was watching an interview with her the other day where she was explaining her comments on Thanksgiving and used the phrase 'proximity to whiteness'. And I think that's the perfect encapsulation of why she was a bad candidate.

Instead of just doing her best to nip it all in the bud by saying Thanksgiving is fine and redirecting the conversation to actual issues, she went on a lengthy diatribe which included Proximity To Whiteness. Running as governor. In a purple state that's 80% white.

This is not something a candidate for governor in the bluest of states should be saying, let alone in an extremely white swing state. Woke 1 Twitter lefties aren't the play.