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Chris and Tom, from Clancy Sigal

  Tom Hayden, drafter of the SDS Port Huron statement in the Sixties and a well known radical activist, has a longwinded piece in the Nation rejecting his previous backing of Bernie Sanders and now supports Hillary because she's got the delegates, black people like her and Bernie is an impractical idealist.
 
  The late Christopher Hitchens, a Trotskyist who became a neocon cheerleading the Iraq invasion, had this to say: “Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: the case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut”.