For myself, there are things I can’t flip on, no matter what, and to me charting a stable course over time matters. El-Sayed has never changed his tune: he wants Medicare for all, he wants Trump held accountable, and he wants big money out of politics. He believes it, he preaches it, he has never deviated from it for a second as far as I know, and he seems legitimately excited about getting those things done. And me, I want all those things too, so for me it’s an easy call (or would be, if I were in Michigan).

On the other hand, who fucking knows what Haley Stevens believes anymore. She’s not even a member of her state’s Democratic Party at this point, and she’s made a point of publicly turning her back on every Dem colleague on the hill who supported her. Even if she got reelected tomorrow, with all the personal bridges she’s burned, what could she possibly get done? No one will trust her now. Her constituents are fucked. It’s good she’s leaving in January, and even better that she lost the primary, IMO.