When it was Brett Kavanaugh’s neck on the line, the Left laughed — we were supposed to “believe all women,” regardless of any lack of evidence or credibility on the part of the accuser.
Now Elizabeth Warren, who famously appropriated Native American identity to advance her career, is trying desperately to play the intersectionality card to take Bernie Sanders down with her own failing campaign.
To be clear, if Warren waffles even slightly tonight on whether Sanders actually told her that a woman cannot win the presidency, it will make her candidacy, if not her entire political career, toast. But if Warren manages to generate and ride a wave of ire from former Hillary Clinton fans, once more inflamed by the perceived sexism of Bernie and his bros, it could become a murder-suicide situation.
At an instinctive level, Democrats know that Warren’s lies have fundamentally undercut her credibility. They know you aren’t actually supposed to “believe all women” unless it’s to hurt Republicans. They know that even if Sanders actually said what he’s accused of, it’s just a logical extension of their own three-year fantasy that Clinton lost because of sexism and Vladimir Putin.
But their thought leaders can’t just say that publicly. Sure, the Very Online Bernie Bros have already pounced on Warren’s credibility, but will the New York Times? Will the Center For American Progress? Will Obama-land?
Tonight’s debate is do-or-die for both Warren and Sanders, because only one of them will make it out alive. Tonight will determine to what lengths the backward laws of intersectionality can be manipulated to backfire on the patriarch of the Left.
