JAZZ SHAW: How #BlackLivesMatter may wind up sinking the Democrats. “This is the perilous pitfall of allowing a single issue contingent to take control of the process with what can easily be perceived as a threatening, potentially destructive agenda. If you want to see how well this plays out in a general election, just keep feeding into stories where the New Black Panthers are showing up. The spectacle involving O’Malley and Sanders at Netroots Nation was a disaster to be sure, but not for the imaginary electoral hopes of those two third tier candidates. It’s a disaster in waiting for the entire progressive movement, and I’m not enough of a partisan to take any joy in the prospect of what that might portend out in the streets even if it means a conservative victory at the ballot box.”