The Democratic establishment wants to put its full weight into the task of crushing Bernie Sanders like a paper cup. But I’m willing to bet that the party is too far gone to the social justice mob for it to work.
As intimidating as Pete Buttigieg’s army of supporters is, Sanders knows that the bloodthirsty social justice people are vicious, and they’re not going lose the nomination to the establishment without a very, very nasty fight.
Joe Biden may now have the backing of former rivals Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Beto O’Rourke (ha ha!), but Sanders sees what the party’s most energetic voters want, and he’s giving it to them in spades.
As described in my new book, Privileged Victims, what they want is a complete reordering of the United States, thrusting grievance, oppression, and victimhood to the center of all public debate.
Though we won’t much be able to call it “debate” anymore if Sanders becomes the nominee. There is no debate when one side, the Democratic side, is calling the other side racist, sexist, and homophobic.
That’s what Sanders is calling President Trump, and by extension, Trump’s supporters, every single day.
Sanders, in January, said Trump “is a racist, sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, and a religious bigot.”
Onstage at the Democratic debate last month, he declared the country “a racist society from top to bottom.”
His campaign website says that “in order to transform this country into a nation that affirms the value of its people of color, we must address the five central types of violence waged against black, brown and indigenous Americans: physical, political, legal, economic and environmental.”
This is the stuff that has earned Sanders the support of his natural heirs, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
Conservatives think this is about free healthcare and socialism. It’s not. It’s about “privilege-checking” and social justice.
Some of the other Democrats who have since exited the primary knew this was happening to their party, too. But none of them embraced it like Sanders.
And that’s why Biden and the establishment will probably fail to stop him.
