The Establishment's Ultimatum: Scuttle Bernie!

After Joe Biden's blowout victory in South Carolina Saturday and the swift withdrawal of Tom Steyer, "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the decisive day of the race for the Democratic nomination, Super Tuesday, is at hand.

Fourteen states -- including California and Texas and delegate-rich Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia -- hold primaries today, where 40% of the delegates to the Democratic convention will be chosen.

Yet consider where the Democratic Party, the party of diversity, America's "progressive" party, the all-inclusive party of persons of color, African Americans, Asians and Hispanics, the party of women and LGBT, will close out this day.

Of the 24 candidates who sought the nomination in 2019, all the black candidates such as Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris and Gov. Deval Patrick, have been eliminated. The sole Asian American, Andrew Yang, is gone. The Hispanic candidate, Julian Castro, is long gone. Winning just 2% of the black vote in South Carolina, 38-year-old gay candidate Pete Buttigieg is gone.

After South Carolina, the last two women in the race, Elizabeth Warren and Klobuchar, were put under pressure from the Democratic establishment in its hair-on-fire panic. To do what?

These female senators were to sacrifice their hopes and dreams to advance the establishment's plot to derail the nomination of the unapologetic progressive who has run the best and boldest campaign of this election year -- Bernie Sanders.

Klobuchar packed it in Monday. Warren is barely hanging on. And where does that leave the party of diversity this first week in March?

With three potential nominees. All three are aging white men -- Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg. All three, if nominated and elected, would soon celebrate their 80th birthday in the White House.

The establishment's ultimatum: Everyone, get with the program of breaking Bernie and "Go with Joe!" or face retribution.

That if Sanders is nominated, Donald Trump will crush him in November. And not only will the White House be lost, all hopes of winning the Senate and blocking Trump's second-term Supreme Court nominees would also be lost.

And not only the Senate but Nancy Pelosi's House could also be lost. And not only the House but hundreds of down-ballot candidates could also lose, leaving the GOP with the whip hand in redistricting congressional seats through the decade.

And if Trumpists rule the roost in the Republican Party and the populist-left of "Crazy Bernie" dominates the Democratic Party, what happens to the agenda of the establishment?

Today promises to a fateful one in the history of the Democratic Party, and it will answer many questions:

Will Sanders win enough delegates to give him an insurmountable lead for the nomination? Or will he have a good, but not a great, night, winning most of the states, but not a large enough pile of delegates to reach 50% before the convention in Milwaukee?

As for Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who was being urged to drop out and back Biden before he got the first returns on his $500 million investment in his campaign, what did he buy with that half billion? We shall find out today.

If his performance is disappointing, will he yield to the establishment and do what it demands to advance the killing of Sanders' candidacy?

As for Biden, the questions are clear and crucial: Will the momentum from Saturday's victory be sustained and replicated in Alabama and other Southern and border states where the African American share of the Democratic electorate is similar to South Carolina's?

Will today provide the clarity the establishment and Biden want, and make this a Biden-Sanders race, with those two coming into the convention with large blocs of delegates but neither with a majority?

What the establishment wants is for the first ballot to end without a nominee -- if that nominee would be Sanders -- and the pledged delegates to be freed of their commitments, and for the superdelegates to vote on the second ballot, and for the party thus to be spared falling into the custody of an angry septuagenarian socialist.

For the Democratic establishment, the stakes could not be higher and thus that establishment, after Biden's landslide in South Carolina, is not disguising its interests or demands: Sanders must be denied the nomination, and Biden is the only one who can accomplish that.

Biden might have won South Carolina without the endorsement of veteran African American Congressman Jim Clyburn. But it was Clyburn's blessing that gave Biden his landslide.

And if Biden wins Alabama and other states today, the major factors of his victory will be his South Carolina landslide and his support from African Americans.

Should Biden win the nomination, still a long shot, he will be in deep political debt.

The clutch of endorsements by failed Democrat candidates for Joe Biden reveals a deep anxiety born of a new understanding of the mortal threat to the life of the Democrat party presented by Bernie Sanders, a threat that goes beyond the sheer numbers piling up in a trump victory which will likely cost the Democrat party down ballot races.

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.

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