Posted on 01/18/2017 2:40:21 AM PST by Fedora
Regardless of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi's titles—and to the comical dismay of corporate, establishment Democrats—Bernie Sanders has become the defacto leader of the Democratic Party.
Sunday in Warren, Michigan put an exclamation point on the sentence, as Sanders, alongside Schumer, brought out 8,000 people on a bitterly cold winter day to fight against Obamacare repeal.
Even the establishment media is waking up—granted a year too late.
"That's the future of the Democratic Party," Joe Scarborough, echoing Mika Brzezinski's sentiment, said on Morning Joe Monday. "He sounds just as relevant today as he did a year ago."
So, as the mainstream media opportunistically tries to Feel The Bern after ignoring Sanders when it mattered (both CNN and MSNBC recently held primetime town halls with him), you know who's become less relevant?
Senator Elizabeth Warren. . .
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But if Sanders decides against running in four years, Warren—in a political climate with a jarring scarcity of true progressive leaders—could have a chance to climb back up the progressive ranks and possibly serve as the movement's best chance to finally take the White House. . .
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“She would twist herself into fits trying to debate Trump.”
She is incapable of complex argument, and probably also complex thought.
Her obvious fraud on affirmative action and hypocrisy on using her position in government to enrich herself is beyond the pale, so to speak, leaving her completely vulnerable to a Hillary-style take-down
SAVE
Zuckerberg is also a thief of monumental proportions. So a good fit
....precisely explains why Hillary actually thought she could get away w/ calling a huge swath of American voters "deplorable and "irredeemable"....and expected no repercussions.
Also explains Meryl Streep's outrageous comments.
Can't write either, according to the revelations from Wikileaks.
This is the essence of the Democrats' problem. The party decided some time in the 1980s to become a collection of "minorities," as expressed in Jesse Jackson's speech at the 1984 Democrat convention.
The Democrat party leadership must have assumed that the glue that would hold all the groups together would be the adherence to progressive ideology, but that hasn't been the case. Instead, the party has become like a home full of foster children, where the adults keep them around for the welfare they generate--in the analogy, the party leadership keeps the groups around for the votes they generate. The groups are beginning to recognize this, and beginning to angle for their piece of the Presidential pie.
The problem for the party is that there is no such thing as a white/black/Hispanic/dualgendered one-person candidate. Barack Obama was a one-time phenomenon: a person who was able to convince the blacks that he was down for the struggle, single women that he was a feminist, Hispanics that he wasn't a gringo and understood la raza latina, liberals that he was a socialist, and white people that he was the embodiment of King's dream. (That he wink-wink-nudged-nudged that he was a closet Muslim, and never argued against being a closet homosexual, didn't hurt him either.) There will never be another like him, for which we may all thank God.
Going forward, whoever gets picked by the party leadership (and don't kid yourselves, Democrat voters, you will never get to pick your own candidate) will be a trade-off: they will pick a collection of identities that is likely to lose the least number of other-identities' votes, such as picking a Hispanic male who might lose some black votes, or a black female who might lose some white female votes, or a white female who might lose some Hispanic votes. It is the natural result of becoming the party of people judged not by the content of their character but by the color of their skin.
VUNERABLE DEMOCRATS WILL BE REMEMBERED IN THE 2018 MID-TERMS
Initial 2018 Senate Ratings Map Filled With GOP Opportunities
http://www.rollcall.com/news/gonzales/initial-2018-senate-ratings-map-filled-with-gop-opportunities
Midterm Senate Map a Democrat Nightmare
Democrats may be in for long drought, facing slew of 2018 contests in deep red states
by Jim Stinson | Updated 11 Nov 2016 at 7:40 AM
Despite near-instant media prognostications the GOP could lose its slim majority in the U.S. Senate come the 2018 midterm elections, it is actually Democrats who face an uphill climb.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/midterm-senate-map-a-democrat-nightmare/
What about Booker?
The fact that he’s embroiled in a Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) scandal involving allegations of massive kickbacks should be a resume enhancer among Democrat thieves.
Booker/Ellison - the perfect ticket for 2020.
How about JOHN LEWIS? Why don’t we draft him to be the Democrat nominee? He already meets most of their requirements (other than being female or TBD), as he lies, is a jerk, and hates whites.
Caroline?
And is not even a member of the party.
DISMANTLE CFPB. Looter Liz Warren should be in federal prison with current and former (Hillary, Barack, Kasich) members of The Gang of 535, aka CONgre$$.
A Crappachussetts stain on the body politic. A traitor among traitors. Not an honest injun.
Manning, you mean?
Obs.
And yet he leaves office having handed Trump the keys to removing him from the equation permanently, while shattering The Democrat Party.
The Dems have no people who have national stature. Their bench is very thin indeed.
And all the governors in office and Trump’s grooming of new leaders should ensure a long happy reign for conservatives.
But Trump and the Deplorables still need to fight to put pressure on all the Fake News.
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