Of what
is the establishment terrified? That if Sanders is nominated, Donald Trump will
crush him in November. And not only will the White House be lost, all hopes of
winning the Senate and blocking Trump’s second-term Supreme Court nominees
would also be lost.
After Joe Biden’s blowout victory in South Carolina Saturday and
the swift withdrawal of Tom Steyer, “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg and Sen. Amy
Klobuchar, the decisive day of the race for the Democratic nomination, Super
Tuesday, is at hand.
Fourteen
states — including California and Texas and delegate-rich Colorado, North
Carolina and Virginia — hold primaries today, where 40% of the delegates to the
Democratic convention will be chosen.
Yet
consider where the Democratic Party, the party of diversity, America’s
“progressive” party, the all-inclusive party of persons of color, African
Americans, Asians and Hispanics, the party of women and LGBT, will close out
this day.
Of
the 24 candidates who sought the nomination in 2019, all the black candidates
such as Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris and Gov. Deval Patrick, have been
eliminated. The sole Asian American, Andrew Yang, is gone. The Hispanic
candidate, Julian Castro, is long gone. Winning just 2% of the black vote in
South Carolina, 38-year-old gay candidate Pete Buttigieg is gone.
After
South Carolina, the last two women in the race, Elizabeth Warren and Klobuchar,
were put under pressure from the Democratic establishment in its hair-on-fire
panic. To do what?
These
female senators were to sacrifice their hopes and dreams to advance the
establishment’s plot to derail the nomination of the unapologetic progressive
who has run the best and boldest campaign of this election year — Bernie
Sanders.
Klobuchar
packed it in Monday. Warren is barely hanging on. And where does that leave the
party of diversity this first week in March?
With
three potential nominees. All three are aging white men — Joe Biden, Bernie
Sanders and Mike Bloomberg. All three, if nominated and elected, would soon
celebrate their 80th birthday in the White House.
The
establishment’s ultimatum: Everyone, get with the program of breaking Bernie
and “Go with Joe!” or face retribution.
Of
what is the establishment terrified?
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That if Sanders is nominated, Donald Trump will crush him in
November. And not only will the White House be lost, all hopes of winning the
Senate and blocking Trump’s second-term Supreme Court nominees would also be
lost.
And
not only the Senate but Nancy Pelosi’s House could also be lost. And not only
the House but hundreds of down-ballot candidates could also lose, leaving the
GOP with the whip hand in redistricting congressional seats through the decade.
For
Democrats, the fear is of the Harding-Coolidge Roaring ’20s revisited.
And if Trumpists rule the roost in the
Republican Party and the populist-left of “Crazy Bernie” dominates the
Democratic Party, what happens to the agenda of the establishment?
Today promises to a fateful one in the
history of the Democratic Party, and it will answer many questions:
Will Sanders win enough delegates to
give him an insurmountable lead for the nomination? Or will he have a good, but
not a great, night, winning most of the states, but not a large enough pile of
delegates to reach 50% before the convention in Milwaukee?
As for Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who was
being urged to drop out and back Biden before he got the first returns on his
$500 million investment in his campaign, what did he buy with that half
billion? We shall find out today.
If
his performance is disappointing, will he yield to the establishment and do
what it demands to advance the killing of Sanders’ candidacy?
As
for Biden, the questions are clear and crucial: Will the momentum from
Saturday’s victory be sustained and replicated in Alabama and other Southern
and border states where the African American share of the Democratic electorate
is similar to South Carolina’s?
Will
today provide the clarity the establishment and Biden want, and make this a
Biden-Sanders race, with those two coming into the convention with large blocs
of delegates but neither with a majority?
What
the establishment wants is for the first ballot to end without a nominee — if
that nominee would be Sanders — and the pledged delegates to be freed of their
commitments, and for the superdelegates to vote on the second ballot, and for
the party thus to be spared falling into the custody of an angry septuagenarian
socialist.
For the Democratic establishment, the
stakes could not be higher and thus that establishment, after Biden’s landslide
in South Carolina, is not disguising its interests or demands: Sanders must be
denied the nomination, and Biden is the only one who can accomplish that.
Biden
might have won South Carolina without the endorsement of veteran African
American Congressman Jim Clyburn. But it was Clyburn’s blessing that gave Biden
his landslide.
And if Biden wins Alabama and other states
today, the major factors of his victory will be his South Carolina landslide
and his support from African Americans.
Should Biden win the nomination, still
a long shot, he will be in deep political debt.
Look for Biden to put an African
American woman on his ticket.
