14.2.20

THAT TWO-FRONT WAR FOR THE OLD ESTABLISHMENT.

It's been amusing, and it's only more amusing to see the likes of James Carville making common cause with the Never Trumpers from 2016 urging the Democrats to nominate anybody, anybody, not named Bernie Sanders.  Yes, run a hostile takeover of the Democrats if necessary!  Take our Big Gulps away if you must!
"James, in all due respect, is a political hack," Sanders said. "We are taking on Trump, the Republican establishment, Carville and the Democratic establishment. But at the end of the day, the grassroots movement that we are putting together — of young people, of working people, of people of color — want real change."
I'm skeptical of this blending of working people and people with roots in the Southern Hemisphere as somehow automatically a constituency for soak-the-rich taxation or for socialism.

For the moment, though, watching the establishmentarians trying to fight populists of the libertarian and of the socialist stripe at the same time is great entertainment.

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