Why Crazy Bernie will lose in 2020

Fifteen months from now, Democrats will nominate their least electable (with the possible exception of Kamala Harris) candidate for U.S. president, who will then go down in flames. This is not just because he's a Castro-loving nut who traveled to Russia to bond with his fellow commies in the 1980s — voters have short memories and will forgive or ignore history that ancient. And Democrats themselves would not lose sleep over the irony of pitching Crazy Bernie after years of collusion delusion. The specific reasons for Crazy's pending loss (if he lives that long) are as follows.

First: Crazy is too old for change or rebranding. He is an old-school, fleck-spittle socialist, a believer in working-class unity against the exploiters. He does not follow the tribal segmentation practices of modern-day identitarian Democrats. Unlike Crooked, he carries no hot sauce in his purse. He does not "speak to black people" or to any other demographic. He can't get behind open borders. He has not attacked Mike Pence for being Christian, because to him all religion is equally wretched. For the same reason, he will not pander to Muslim-Americans — that's not what true socialists do. He doesn't even seem to view Donald J. Trump as the world's biggest problem (that would be those exploiters). He will be nominated by virtue of his pre-existing (2016) base as well as crowding in the Democrat field, even as his colorblind, sex-blind, orientation-blind, non-culture-warrior approach is alien to the majority of the party's new hard base of tribes, grievance groups, bitter her-turners, and social justice warriors. We saw how almost no blacks voted for Crazy in the 2016 Democrat primaries, and they will not turn out for him at near Obama-level numbers in the 2020 general....

“and they need a black candidate to galvanise black turn out and to take black votes away from Trump who has improved their lot in life more than any other”

Yes, they do - otherwise they’ll lose a lot of Senate and House races (because they won’t come out to the polls AT ALL if they Presidential candidate doesn’t motivate them...just like everyone else). But here’s the thing with Kneepads Harris: No warmth, no likeability whatsoever...and the Hispanics may not show up. The Dems are somewhat in between a rock and a hard place, with 2 constituencies that are roughly of equal size and believe that they are owed something (pretty much like every one of their constituencies...but these are the 2 biggest), and only one can be pleased at a time.

I still think that Bernie wins because of money and having a more-or-less perpetual campaign since Trump won. He will win the lion’s (or pussy’s, depending on outlook) share of delegates in most races, because of those factors and the severe Leftist tilt of the Dems. Now, of course, you have another problem (if you’re a Dem, that is): what if Bernie is once again denied the nomination, especially if it looks like a fix for Kneepads (courtesy of the Obamas)? I think that a lot of the pajama boys and pussy-hat types are going to stay home.

Anyhow, it’ll be Trump in a pretty big win (and, perhaps, a landslide if old, white, Socialist Bernie picks a gay white guy to be his Veep - that’ll resonate with about 5% of the population). This is going to be as close to Nixon vs. ultra-lib McGovern and crazy Eagleton as we’ll likely ever see again in our lifetimes. The Dems should, if they’re smart (and I’m not taking any bets on that) will play as much of a holding game as possible, by nominating a sacrificial Presidential candidate who can at least get their base out in a number of swing districts.

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