The Democrats’ Bernie Dilemma: He Exposes Their True Character
27th February 2020
I think it was Tom Bethell, back when he wrote the must-read Washington column for The American Spectator, who asked the pertinent question when Bernie Sanders was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives under the Socialist Party affiliation in 1990: How will we be able to tell the difference between Bernie’s socialism and the “mainstream” Democratic Party in Washington?
That illuminating question has become suddenly urgent now that Bernie may be the Democrats’ presidential nominee this year. Bethell’s astute point, 30 years ago, is being borne out today: Bernie is the telos of the modern Democratic Party. This can be proven with Euclidian precision with the simple observation that all of Bernie’s rivals essentially say they are for the same things as Bernie, only a little less costly and intrusive, etc. In other words, all of Bernie’s rivals stand for the proposition that they desire Socialism-Lite. It is great fun watching them tie themselves in knows dealing with him in the so-called Democratic “debates.” Message to Bernie: Shut up, they explained. No wonder things are not going well for Democrats at the moment.