= Editor's Comments =
The official position of this publication is that Gillibrand is Good, Actually.
This may require some explanation.
There is no doubt that Gillibrand is a centrist (which is to say, very problematic and right-wing, just less so than the radical fringe alliance of billionaires and racists that dominate one of the two political parties in America). But over the past few years she has dramatically overhauled her talking points and stated positions in ways that show political acumen and that align herself with the left (which is to say, broadly speaking, sanity). This is of course the kind of thing that will often get politicians, particularly women, labeled as power-seekers, flip-floppers, etc. But those descriptors cut to the core of nearly every person who has ever aspired to high office throughout the course of human history, much less U.S. presidential politics. //Within// that group, one that has chosen to currently wrap themselves in the garb of progressive politics, and has shown themselves to be adroit at when and how to do so, is worth some consideration.
Certainly, as a "Bernie Bro" who did not vote for Clinton in the last election, Gillibrand is a much more palatable Democratic establishment candidate.