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WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton had a great night on Saturday. The Democratic Party had a terrible one.
Clinton trounced Sen. Bernie Sanders by nearly 3-to-1 in the South Carolina primary, winning every single county in the state. The thumping followed a convincing Clinton victory in the Nevada caucuses less than a week earlier, and sets the stage for a strong showing for Clinton on Super Tuesday, when 11 states are in play.
For the Democratic Party establishment, these wins are being interpreted as a sign that the universe is back in order, after a 74-year-old democratic socialist from Vermont had seemingly knocked everything out of orbit. Party leaders long ago picked Clinton as their standard-bearer for 2016 and worked to clear the field of potential primary challengers. When Sanders began closing on Clinton in national polls and clobbered her in New Hampshire, the establishment bet was starting to look shaky. Had they lost touch with the core concerns of the party’s base? After South Carolina, Sanders’ chances to secure an upset nomination […]
The Democratic party will accept Bernie no more than the Republicans will accept ‘the Donald’. As David Cay Johnston says, there is one party, the money party, it has two wings.
Neither the Bern nor the Donald will stop, in my opinion. Rational people will forego the parties…… but to quote Adlai Stevenson when a supporter said, “Sir, you have the vote of every thinking person in America.” Adlai said, “Good, but I need a majority.”
Bloomberg is rattling off stage. The quest for the presidency is the one virus for which there is no cure.
Indeed a political revolution must take place for us to change direction. I feel it will not happen without a revolution in media where we, the citizens, pay for competing news coops so the media is funded by many separate points which cannot be intimidated. As Gandhi observed, you cannot communicate well through the oppositions pipes. thus he produced Young India. …………….. Will Young America arise?