After a thumping in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton is embracing a new tactic to undermine the rise of Bernie Sanders: suggesting he is not a Democrat.
Here’s Clinton: “He’s a relatively new Democrat…I’m not even sure he is one. He’s running as one. So I don’t know quite how to characterize him. I’ll leave that to him.” The quote comes from an interview Clinton did on a podcast hosted by an (unusually) fedora-less Glenn Thrush from POLITICO.
This, of course, is odd, because Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. Perhaps Clinton missed the weeks of media coverage early on in the race where virtually every outlet went into the history of Sanders the independent, and his embrace of Democratic Socialism.
Or when Chris Matthews asked her to define the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist. Clinton didn’t have an answer then, nor does she have one now.
But she does think, apparently, there is a difference.
