Dang, Biden in 4th place. This plus slippage in SC polls, getting the feeling he never actually wanted to run in the first place, as though he knew it would be an uphill battle against the socialist candidates that are polling better (since Trump took the moderates).
People forget, Trump didn’t win 2016 because he christened a bunch of brand new Republicans, he took their rust belt, their blue collar, their union voters and left Democrats with the Bernie bros to shape their party.
The big tent that was always discussed was actually created. Those who were hesitant were convinced by measurably low unemployment, higher wages, tax cuts. Meanwhile Dems grew extremely narrow in scope to where even pro-life Dems have been bounced.
And Dems still blame everyone and everything but their own errors so they will never understand how to regain those voters lost in 2016. Instead they just call them all “racists” and scream “RUSSIA!”
Look, I don’t want to see a group of socialists masquerading as Democrats, either. I think it’s better for our political system to have healthy parties with platforms that haven’t failed everywhere they’ve ever been tried.
It’s fun to watch the Dem in-fighting and power struggle … until it isn’t the party anymore, it’s the country and you wind up with a legitimate socialist running for the White House. You won’t ever get a moderate Democrat as a nom again if they go socialist. It won’t happen.
And for those who say “who cares, let them eat their own,” that’s great until a socialist wins the nomination and then, after 2020, runs and wins the White House and they eat you.
Lastly, the socialist surge is possible because party leaders used the fringe as a GOTV apparatus for so long, feeding them influence until they co-opted the party. Frankenstein’s monster.
