Kingmaking on Media Madness

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A Thousand Yard Stare At An Oncoming Train

Well, if reading this one doesn’t feel like seeing my own ghost, I won’t know what will till I cross over to the other side. As I mentioned in a couple of previous teasers, the 2020 Democratic Party nomination contest was a horrifying struggle between my heart, which was fully in the tank for Bernie Sanders, and my brain – which kept telling me the liberal establishment would find a way to screw poor people in the end. Ultimately of course, I went with my heart and got the wrong answer, but as this May 14th, 2019 piece on Media Madness demonstrates, it’s not like my head wasn’t trying to warn me about the incoming iceberg. Keeping in mind that this article was published literally months before the first debate in the 2020 nomination contest, I noted that the Congressional Black Caucus’s attempts to negotiate Kamala Harris’s surrender to Biden in exchange for the nomination to be his Vice President, was an ominous portent of a united neoliberal front. Then I dismissed the possibility as unlikely, unless someone pushed weakling Tom Perez aside and made it happen – as it turns out, that’s precisely how it all went down, and the bad guys won again.

“Is this the beginning of a united neo-liberal front? In my opinion, it’s still too early to say – Harris and the Congressional Black Caucus by themselves, do not an anti-Bernie unity ticket make. It is however clear to me that the vast majority of Democratic Party strategists are starting to come around to the realization that their choices are Biden, or Bernie, and I think we all know that means Biden. The beginnings of a coalition are starting to appear in the media, and if they turn into actual bonds on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders might once again find himself facing down an enemy who won’t fight fair and has all the cards in its pockets.”

To check it out over on Media Madness, click on the quotation block above, or the header below:

Media Madness: Kingmaking

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