Posted on 04/24/2020 7:16:07 AM PDT by simpson96
With Joe Biden as their presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, the Democrats are headed for a major disappointment.
Donald Trump's election in 2016 was an overt rejection of our nation's corrupt political establishment, fueled by a deep-seated popular desire for a genuine leader. Unlike conventional politicians, Trump answers directly to the American people—not to international institutions, establishment power brokers or even his own party's bigwigs. Four years on, whether you agree or disagree with him politically, it's hard to deny that Donald J. Trump is exactly the kind of unscripted, "tell-it-like-it-is" president Americans all over the country were hoping for when they voted for him.
Biden, on the other hand, is the Hillary Clinton of 2020—a typical "tell-them-what-they-want-to-hear" politician whose entire career has been based on pandering to the ruling class.
The Democratic Party's leadership clearly doesn't see this as a liability, because it arguably went to even greater lengths to swing the nomination in Biden's favor than it did to ensure Clinton's nomination in 2016. To these party leaders, it was unfathomable that Clinton's well-earned reputation as a power-hungry panderer could have contributed to her stunning defeat. America simply wasn't "ready for a woman president," they told themselves. So they picked the male version of Hillary Clinton and patted themselves on the back for keeping Bernie Sanders off the ticket.
The Democratic establishment still holds a grudge against Sanders, whom some party leaders blame for failing to convince his enthusiastic base of supporters to turn out for Clinton in 2016. In a naive attempt to prevent the same thing from happening again in 2020, Biden likes to brag he has "the most progressive record of anybody running"—a theme that former President Barack Obama echoed in his own perfunctory endorsement of his former vice president last week.
But the truth is
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Its the same phenomenon as the former Soviets - supporting the party hierarchy and bureaucracy is even more important than survival.
I don’t know who shot that video but thank God they did, and thank God it got out. It continues to speak volumes.
Slojo is pitiful and he is not the rat’s candidate...their real candidate will be the rat establishment pick for vp....slojo is in the top slot to get the corn pop vote...slojo will be lucky if he makes it to November...yeah this is the old guard demonrats last stand...
Democratic Party = Unessential
I think the bigger story is that a partisan publication like Newsweek published this.
I about fell off my chair.
He also appears to be in the early stages of dementia. If he remains the nominee, I predict that there won't be any debates.
As to all of the corruption and "hands on" behavior; he is a Dem, they get a pass.
And that's exactly what is required.Plugs will not be the nominee.
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