The establishment isn't stopping Bernie Sanders by jonward11
WASHINGTON — When the Democratic Party changed the rules for presidential debates starting next month, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders decried the rules change as the “definition of a rigged system.”
The poll cancellation and the caucus debacle, in particular, illustrate the difference between perception and reality when it comes to the political establishment. The supposedly all-powerful establishment is a boogeyman that can serve as a motivational tool for many Sanders supporters, while in actuality it is a terrified mess, according to longtime political operatives.
Story continues“Everyone is waiting for someone else to point out that the guy would be a general election catastrophe,” said Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic advocacy group vilified among progressives as the recipient of corporate donations. “They don’t want to be key actors in selecting candidates and framing voter options. They just want to prove that they are totally and equally open to any candidate and then to serve as the arena for voter decisions,” said Yuval Levin, author of the new book “A Time to Build.”
Political parties and party leaders wielded a stronger hand in the past and made sure the majority of the vote wasn’t divided like this. But that kind of party boss became a relic some time ago. Modern parties face a problem common to most institutions in the modern era: how to facilitate or lead collective action.In the 2020 Democratic primary, it’s possible that the progressive wing, which is divided between Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
And there is plenty of material — otherwise known as “opposition research” — on Sanders. New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait went through much of it in a recent column: ticking off some of Sanders’s radical policy proposals as well as his association decades ago with the Socialist Workers Party. There’s no question that if Sanders were the Democratic nominee, Trump and his campaign would be eager to attack him on these points.
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