Hi Garry,

Big fan of your chess playing and your My Great Predecessors series, but my personal opinion of you took a big hit after reading your “Hey Bernie Sanders, Don’t Lecture Me on Socialism” article from 2016. I was wondering if maybe the past 5 years of a “moderate Democrat” losing an election to Trump, followed by another “moderate Democrat” winning candidate in 2020 and then providing arms to a genocidal nuclear power as they slowly destroy Palestine.

What will it take for you to get behind a candidate who isn’t afraid to call themselves a socialist at this point, as it’s clear that “moderate democrats” can do nothing but stall for time while the fascists of the world keep the initiative, to use a chess term. Are you going to die on the hill of knee jerk anti-socialism when the alternative is the same neo-liberal consensus that supported Yeltsin and the vulture capitalists who got rich by pillaging the former USSR while it experienced a catastrophic decline in quality of life?