In the opening scene of "Avengers: Infinity War," Hulk body-slams the mad Titan Thanos, and they exchange blows for a minute. One of Thanos' henchmen starts to intervene, but another stays him with the advice: "Let him have his fun."I'll say it again: Bernie Sanders is going to destroy the Democratic party, and he's not even a Democrat.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 3, 2019
I'm seeing a lot of this at Rick Wilson's twitter feed, where he feeds the despair that the Democrats will never get organized long enough to defeat the odious Trump (the Democrats, of course, still suffering from the condition Will Rogers identified long ago, of not being an organized political party. Oh, just google Will Rogers and leave me alone!):
How Democrats are losing 2020, already: Trump must not win reelection, but the candidates lining up to beat him are giving a good chance https://t.co/bcoJ59llG4— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 1, 2019
It's the kind of thing prompted by things like this:
Bernie Sanders is going on the white nationalism network to talk about “the economy and jobs” https://t.co/eEHfEaGZvs— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 3, 2019
The fact is, the election is 19 months away, the conventions are 16 months away, and the first Democratic primary is not until June. Besides, the GOP candidates Trump ran against were clowns, and Hillary Clinton was one in a long line of really lousy campaigners for the Presidency who have afflicted both parties in the last 120 years (at least). Part of the purpose of the primaries is to winnow out the pretenders from the real thing, the clowns from the competent. There's a huge number of people running to get the Democratic nomination, and most of them are polling well because they are well known, not because they are favored to be the party standard bearer.
By the end of "Infinity Wars" all of Thanos' henchmen are dead, and he is all but mortally wounded; yet he still manages to work his will on the universe. And there the analogy comes crashing down because Donald Trump is not Thanos, and people like Stephen Miller and Larry Kudlow and Mick Mulvaney are not even as competent as the sub-villains in an MCU movie. Trump is not Thanos; nor is Bernie Sanders.
So relax. The worst that can happen is that Bernie's supporters, or Warren's, or somebody's, decide to once again take their ball and go home. But I suspect the rest of the party will remember 2016 rather vividly, and hold the door for them, and GOTV anyway.
For now: let them have their fun.
I had to remind someone of the weeks in the last cycle when this one or another of the Republicans were deemed the front runner, including Ben Carson.
ReplyDeleteTom Nichols. Other than being a "Never Trumper" he's been wrong about everything, I don't see any reason to listen to him about anything.
Though I wish Bernie Sanders would flake off. As someone asked the other day, why won't he release his tax record.
ReplyDeleteThe winnowing process hasn't even started. By the convention in 16 months some of the "front runners" and "serious contenders" will already be forgotten, as well as any controversies.
ReplyDeleteBesides, Will Rogers' description of the Democratic party still holds. Same as it ever was.