It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

And if there were, we know from 2020 there’d still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn’t progressive enough.

Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:

Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn’t work.

Same again true of Peter Samson’s original 1959 and 1960 editions.