Posted on 01/14/2020 9:27:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Bernie Sanders has stepped up an undeclared war on his top rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination — and left himself open to counterattack — because it's do-or-die time for him.
Sanders, I-Vt., and his supporters are tangling with former Vice President Joe Biden over foreign policy, trade and race, and with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., over policy purity, elitism and whether he said a woman can't win the presidency. The skirmishes rile up his base at the expense of alienating other Democrats.
While that's a strategy that makes more sense here and in other early primary states, where a relatively small but committed army of supporters can deliver victory, it risks a severe backlash now or over the long run.
For Sanders, the basic challenge is mathematical. He is reviled by much of a Democratic Party that he has held at arm's length for most of his career. That means he can't count on forming a coalition to win the nomination if he comes up short of a majority of convention delegates — especially if he turns off Democrats who have warmed to him since his 2016 primary defeat. He has little choice but to go for a shock-and-awe campaign that overwhelms his opponents, and that starts with a fast launch in Iowa.
In the past few weeks, Sanders and his allies have hammered his leading rivals for being too soft in their criticism of Trump's decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, placed an op-ed in a South Carolina newspaper accusing Biden of having "repeatedly betrayed black voters" and portrayed Warren as a closet elitist, a false prophet for the progressive movement and a liar.
But it's hard to live in a glass house three weeks from the first votes of 2020.
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Totalitarians need economic dislocation to slide in - Lenin had the Russian disasters of WWI and Hitler had the Great Depression. It’s going to be a lot more difficult to ride resentment and anger to office when the country is doing well. If Bernie’s appeal is only to the permanently aggrieved, he loses.
Bernie’s essay...
“A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused.
A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously.
The man and woman get dressed up on Sunday — and go to Church, or maybe to their “revolutionary” political meeting.”
Bernie Sanders = Amon Goeth
That's what I hope. I was actually worried the Burisma story would sink Joe, but it seems like he has survived. But ya gotta know that story, and China, and others, will come back after he wins the nomination, and Trump will bludgeon him with the corruption daily.
President Eisenhower had a heart attack during his first term, was re-elected, and lived 8 years after leaving office.
It’s easy. Just imagine hundreds of gallons of the rawest, S F vagrant-generated human sewage being pumped into your living room for three continuous hours, and you have it.
My question is: Since Bernie is a registered socialist in Vermont and not a member of the Democraptic Party, if he wins a majority of the primaries, can the Democraptic Party big wigs deny him their nomination because he doesn’t actually belong to the party?
NBC NOOS is DESPERATELY trying to convey to Bernie the campaign strategy they’ve developed for him ..
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