Bernie Sanders's Successful Insurgency

[Jefferson23]

Win or lose, the Democrat has already accelerated a major generational shift within the Democratic party.

Bernie Sanders’s resounding victory in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary cements his status as one of the Democratic Party’s most successful insurgents ever, even as it leaves him still facing a steep uphill climb to overtake Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination.

The math favors Clinton, who can clinch a first-ballot nomination by winning about one-third of the delegates available in the remaining five caucuses and 16 primaries through June 7. But, even if he falters, Sanders has triggered dynamics that could reshape his party for years. Most important, his campaign is crystallizing the political emergence of the massive Millennial Generation, which is poised to pass the Baby Boom by 2020 as the electorate’s largest voting block.

“This thing is not going to go away,” insisted Robert Borosage, the co-director of the progressive Campaign for America’s Future. Borosage served as a senior adviser to Jesse Jackson’s landmark 1988 outsider presidential campaign and says the party has “not seen this kind of insurgency, this kind of strength” since then. “It’s even bigger [than Jackson],” Borosage said, “because it’s this younger generation coming into politics and moving with their own energy.”


snip*But none of that obscures what Sanders has already achieved, and how it may change the Democratic Party. At my request, the veteran electoral analyst Rhodes Cook, publisher of an eponymous political newsletter, compiled figures comparing Sanders’s performance with previous outsider challengers. Those numbers show that Sanders is on track to win more total votes, and a higher percentage of the primary vote, than any insurgent Democrat in the modern primary era.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/sanderss-successful-insurgency/477249/

[Trust Buster]

1. Not really. The young people will go away when they figure out that trillions in new entitlements

aren't coming their way. Sanders is running a political Ponzi scheme. They never endure with time.

[Jefferson23]

2. Really, a Ponzi scheme?...interesting assessment for a DU member.

I wonder how many American are beginning to see those trade deals as Ponzi schemes.

[Trust Buster]

3. Educated Americans know the global economy is here, trade deals or not.

You deflect from the fact that young people are being promise trillions that won't be delivered. Sanders has disaffected them from further political involvement.

[Jefferson23]

4. I've deflected from your presumptions. I will remind you the primary is not over but your

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cynical assessment is noted, for what its worth.