Quote of the day, Political Coalitions Are FRAGILE edition.

Which is a real shame, sure.

“It would be a terrible mistake for the progressive movement to split into a ‘black lives matter’ movement and an ‘economic justice’ movement,” laments Clinton administration labor secretary Robert Reich. But the fact is that the different priorities of gentry liberals and black activists, two heavily Democratic constituencies, are sparking heated arguments.

…And said arguments are causing the progressive movement to split into a ‘black lives matter’ movement and an ‘economic justice’ movement, so it looks like Bob Reich is going to be having a few sour moments ahead of him, there. And no, I’m not particularly sympathetic. Bob Reich is hardly sympathetic towards me, after all. …And you should see what I originally wrote, there! Or perhaps not.