The Coming Implosion of the Democratic Party
Commentary
At first glance, it’s bad news for President Donald Trump.
He’s losing his easiest mark for the 2020 general election: The Bernie Sanders campaign isn’t only toast, it’s burnt toast.
Super Tuesday was a disaster for Bernie. Were the Bernie Bros toking up while playing video games? Whatever the case, they didn’t show up to vote, not enough of them anyway. Maybe, they didn’t intend to. Not their thing.
Only in California did Bernie save his honor (a bit), but there’s good reason to believe he only staved off the Biden wave there because of early voting.
The future primaries don’t look any better. Actually, they’re worse.
Sanders is next staring at delegate-rich Florida, where he’s alienated practically every Latino voter in a Latino state with his admiring comments about Fidel Castro. (I thought Bernie didn’t like billionaires.) Pennsylvania, New York, and other East Coast states don’t look much better. Only in Washington state does he have good prospects, and that’s far from enough.
Joe Biden is riding high for the moment. The stock market cheered his victory—or, more accurately, Sanders’s loss—with a quadruple-digit gain. (Amid the coronavirus, how much the prospect of a Sanders presidency was accounting for the recent precipitous market drawdown is hard to say. But it obviously had its effect as well.)
What Sanders has been attempting for eight years now is essentially a hostile takeover (by a registered independent) of the Democratic Party, turning it into a Socialist Party, with or without an upper-case “s.”
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