2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Seriously? [View all]mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)He should have been gone last July. Last August. Certainly by January. Couldn't possibly be around in March. Of course he'd be gone in April, May, June...
The Sanders campaign suggested two things. First, the nation was hungering for a 74 year old balding Jew from Vermont to set fire to the political world and lead America into a promised land of free college, etc., etc., etc.
Conversely, the Sanders campaign demonstrated how weak a candidate the supposedly inevitable Hillary Clinton actually is. Luckily for us the GOPukes seem determined to field a second-rate clown and con-man as her opposition. Let us pray that continues and that the GOPuke establishment does not succeed in replacing the Head Clown as their candidate with someone who has at least some understanding of politics and America's standing, and role, in this era. Jeb Bush, for example.
The die is cast, as the old Romans would say. We will have to see how November turns out.
For the true Progressives among us, Sanders ability to fight all the way to D.C. can give us hope that all is not lost. That's a lot more than we had a year ago.
Thanks, Bernie