Definitely a great news day. Even The New Yorker has a brilliant analysis of the Dem candidates.
If You Think It’s Bad for Mainstream Democrats Now, Just Wait
By Jonathan Chait
FTA:
Some Democrats back Biden, others defect, and others wait to see what happens. That would be the worst possible outcome: a long, slow, painful death that prevents another liberal from taking his place and allows Sanders to gain unstoppable momentum.
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Also, as an additional morbid touch, the South Carolina primary will feature an organized influx of Republicans voting for Sanders in a specific plan to boost what they see as Democrats’ weakest nominee.
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To be sure, if Bloomberg is the last Democrat standing against Sanders, he may well attract substantial support from Democratic elected officials and put up a strong fight. Still, he would face enormous opposition from the left. This is, after all, a billionaire who endorsed George W. Bush in 2004. And while the left has previously whipped itself into an angry frenzy against, successively, O’Rourke, Biden, Harris, and Buttigieg, the rage against Bloomberg would reach a new level.
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In time, we liberals may look back at this moment as a high point.
See QPost 3749. I nominate George Soros.
“Who controls the [D] party?
Who really controls the [D] party?
Threat: If a major political party can be [controlled] does that represent a clear and present danger to the United States of America?
[GS] “
The fact that these weak Republicans stayed together (with the obvious exception) for the impeachment vote is a credit to the leadership. Hoping Trump has more “messages” to send.
Republican senators ‘urged the White House to let impeachment trial witness Gordon Sondland quit because firing him looked bad’ but Trump ‘felt it was necessary to send a message not to go against him’