Suspect she’ll drop after Super Tuesday if she doesn’t outright win several states
She would otherwise have had to, but she turned on the dark money faucet instead.
There is zero chance of that happening now though - nobody is paying her tens of millions of dollars after finishing 3rd, 4th, 4th, and 5th, just to drop out three days later.
Like Trump and Cheney, Sanders divides the world into allies and enemies.
Is it really a surprise that politicians are moving in that direction when the coverage of our politics has become so tribal, though? Even the best publications today have people that clearly are not checking their tribal affiliations at the door.
I don't want to give them a pass on the mindset, because I think it's a dangerous and stupid way to approach foreign relations, but I also think that there are reasons that our leadership has been increasingly trending towards Nixon's worst traits.
Everyone is tribal now, right, left, and centre - it's just that the latter struggles to recognise these characteristics in themselves, not least because billions of dollars are spent every year reinforcing the notion that their cultural and political preferences are objective, neutral, moderate, apolitical, even-handed, rational, and above the partisan fray.
Take for example the Bernie Bro idea (
which actually originated as a co-ordinated stunt by the Clinton campaign against Obama). While Sanders' supporters have undoubtedly said vile things online, so too have the supporters of
every other candidate - though for some mysterious reason, none of these have been Breaking News on CNN centered around a meme with
a mighty 13 likes, the same
as, for example, this classic from the #khive (which, incidentally, seems a natural home for
@sdk, given
his unconventional proclivities). It really doesn't take much critical thinking to understand why a network which recently likened Sanders to the Coronavirus has decided to essentially invent this narrative.
And this reflects the real difference between those who support Sanders and those who support everyone else - not tribalism and snarky comments online (which are both universal), but first, different political values; second, a lower tolerance for dishonest and hypocrisy (as Liz Warren's recent disgraces have made very clear); and third, a lack of naivety and illusions on what the Democratic Party actually is, how it actually works, who it actually represents, and how its narratives and consensus are created and reinforced.
Whereas other candidates' supporters tend to actually like the Democratic Party, Sanders supporters tend to understand it - and that's neither tribalism nor a wind-up, it's the truth.
