The old pros of the Democrat establishment understand that a Bernie Sanders candidacy represents a mortal threat to them but the really savvy old Democrat pros know that a Bernie Sanders presidency is perhaps an even greater threat to their occupancy of the swamp. Sanders is not a Democrat even so it is not that Bernie resides outside the strict definitional contours of the Democrat party as a socialist or a democratic socialist, it has to do with Sander's philosophy. Sanders is a true believer, he is a communist, a Marxist, a revolutionary who wants to overturn our entire political system which means that he will turn out Democrats as soon as he will turn out trump Republicans.
All leftist revolutionaries dispose of useful idiots as an immediate first step upon obtaining power. The list is long, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Maduro, and so on. That is not to submit that Bernie will resort to murder, but he will resort to extraordinary moves to substitute his own base for the corrupt present-day Democrat power structure. The bulk of his voters understand this to be the whole point of his candidacy. So if Bernie is denied the nomination, it is almost as bad for them as if he were defeated in the election because they equate the power structure of the Democrat party with the established power structure of the swamp. They mean to destroy both power structures and put themselves in its place. They think this is a noble crusade but we all know that it will end in tears. It will end in tears for them as they are disposed of as useful idiots and it will end in tears for the whole nation.
The Democrat party establishment, not unlike the Republican establishment, is in business, an enterprise that we conservatives should see for exactly what it is, a business. The Democrats are clever, they introduce race, women's rights, gay issues etc. into the mix to make the whole operation appear as something other than a business. For decades, before Donald Trump, the Republicans appeared as the party of business, that is, a party that existed to protect the world of business. The clever Democrats managed to appear as the party of the aggrieved, hence, the race hustles, the madness of the women's issues, the tribalism etc. all the while in reality the Democrats sold out to Wall Street and any other power organization, often funded with public monies, such as teachers unions who could contribute the money and the numbers to keep them in business.
Trump exposed much of this when he attacked the trade deals and open immigration which favored both parties whose principals got fatter and fatter as they sold America to China. We saw the reaction in both parties to the effrontery of Donald Trump in announcing the Emperor has no clothes. The rush to resurrect Joe Biden, a dead man walking, is a desperate move to divert the electorate away from these realities and onto some shiny object.
So the Democrats have chosen the lesser of two evils, a loss with Joe Biden is to be preferred to a loss, or even a victory, with Bernie Sanders. If they nominate Biden, the Sanders base revolts. If they nominate Bernie, the whole country revolts-including much of the Democrat party base we often referred to as Reagan Democrats, lunch pail Democrats, deplorables, or just plain working people. I believe the Democrat establishment would rather fight a smaller war against Bernie's base and leave fewer bodies on the field. They are acting to contain down ballot losses which they believe will be greater under Sanders than under Biden. Sanders will nationalize the election and the whole Democrat party will go down with him. Biden will be cut loose and every Democrat will run an individual, localized race with a better chance of survival.
Bernie's base will insist that this is a nationalized election and it will suck every Democrat candidate into the vortex. Win or lose, the Democrat establishment is in mortal peril. For the Democrat establishment it ain't personal, it's just business.
