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RobertDevereaux

(1,857 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2019, 11:52 AM Apr 2019

The Democratic establishment should chill out about Bernie Sanders

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"The smartest strategy is to treat him exactly like any other slightly outside-the-box candidate (former three-term Congress member from El Paso, mayor of the fourth-largest city in Indiana, etc.) and be politely encouraging from the sidelines. Faced with such a big field, the odds of any particular contender winning are fairly low. But Sanders certainly might win the nomination.

"And if he gets it, Democrats will have a nominee with some unique weaknesses but also a record of strong electoral performance and a substantive governing record that reveals someone who is dramatically more pragmatic than his record. From an establishment standpoint, in other words, he’d be perfectly fine. And while over-the-top denunciations of Sanders might have made sense as a cynical way to curry favor with Hillary Clinton in 2016, there’s no strategic logic to doing it today."
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The Democratic establishment should chill out about Bernie Sanders (Original Post) RobertDevereaux Apr 2019 OP
Don't see that happening... but, here's hoping!! InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2019 #1
Indeed! RobertDevereaux Apr 2019 #2
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