From my limited (digital) interactions with Howie Klein, I like him a lot. And I have no problem at all with his enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders. But I don’t get why he’s bashing Martin O’Malley for echoing some of Bernie’s themes. Even if O’Malley is a bit of a Johnny-Come-Lately on the economic populism, don’t we want a couple of candidates on Clinton’s left pushing her in our direction? The worst that can happen is that it inoculates her from charges that her maiden name is really Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin. And, since she’s not a communist or even a socialist, I don’t see why a little truth in perception is a bad thing in this case.
Casual Observation
