TAP THE KEG OF BOCK!

Fill your steins!  The communist on corporatist fratricide among Democrats is about to get epic.  "Having his way with the Democratic National Committee is a slam dunk because Biden supplies the ball, hires the referees, owns the nets, and controls the concession stands."  It's rich reading Norman Solomon, for the communist wing, accusing the corporatist wing of engaging in Leninist style democratic centralism, isn't it?

There’ll be speeches galore, including one by Biden as a prelude to his expected announcement that he’ll seek a second term. The gathering will exude confidence, at least in public. But if Biden were truly confident that Democratic voters want him to be the 2024 nominee, he wouldn’t have intervened in the DNC’s scheduling of early primaries.

New polling underscores why Biden is so eager to bump New Hampshire from the first-in-the-nation spot that it has held for more than 100 years. In the state, “two-thirds of likely Democratic primary voters don’t want President Joe Biden to seek re-election,” the UNH Survey Center found. “Biden is statistically tied with several 2020 rivals, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, all of whom are more personally popular than Biden among likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire.”

Those likely Democrat primary voters are refugees from Massachusetts who want to be taxed like Republicans and governed like Democrats. May they be damned.  Or amused.  Funny, isn't it, how quickly Georgia goes from the Poster State for Voter Suppression to a Refuge of Popular Soverignty.

But South Carolina, the state with the lowest rate of unionization in the country, offers the singular virtue of having rescued Biden’s presidential hopes with its 2020 primary. As the Associated Press explained last week, Biden is “seeking to reward South Carolina, where nearly 27 percent of the population is Black, after a decisive win there revived his 2020 presidential campaign following losses it suffered in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.”

The president’s rationalization for putting South Carolina first is diversity. Yet the neighboring purple state of Georgia, which has an activist Democratic base, is more racially diverse -- and it’s a crucial swing state, where the party’s general-election prospects would benefit from being the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

Biden’s intervention has created a long-term political mess for Democrats in New Hampshire, where he’s now less popular than ever due to undermining the state’s first-primary status. Even New Hampshire’s normally compliant Democratic senators and representatives in Congress have been denouncing the move.

I've become less and less enthusiastic about party primaries, particularly of the first-past-the-post sort; and maybe if we saw the primary cycle off there'd be less pandering about ethanol subsidies and other sops to local rent-seekers.  For now, though, quaff that beer and draw another!  "Despite the best efforts of their flying monkeys in the mainstream media to make it seem as if everything is alright, the Democrats have been choking on buyer’s remorse for two years now."