The single most obvious analytic question heading into the primaries was: how much of Bernie’s 2016 support was truly support for him?
The media has strenuously refused to even ponder it because the answer would run counter to their open animus toward Clinton in 2016.
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The media has strenuously refused to even ponder it because the answer would run counter to their open animus toward Clinton in 2016.
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At no time since 2016 has the media truly reckoned with its own open antipathy toward Clinton.
At no time has it reckoned with how it’s own coverage fomented oppositional voting merely against her.
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At no time has it reckoned with how it’s own coverage fomented oppositional voting merely against her.
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Instead, it has wholly rushed forward with the unexamined and ludicrous presumption that Bernie Sanders support was a product of nothing other than the newfound rise of his own personal political brand.
That absurd fiction is now being soundly disabused.
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That absurd fiction is now being soundly disabused.
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For the first time in four years, Bernie Sanders actual performance is not being inflated by the artificial boost of a media-fed angst towards his opponent.
The media is in no rush to admit his true support was never larger because for years they’ve been insisting it was.
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The media is in no rush to admit his true support was never larger because for years they’ve been insisting it was.
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