If Bernie Sanders Wants To Help Democrats He Needs To Stop Helping Democrats

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by Michael John Scott

I agree with columnist Peggy Noonan. She isn’t sure whether Donald Trump will wind up being a successful president, but if he does it might be due in part to what she sees as a stroke of good luck for him: clueless Democratic enemies.

As she writes in the Wall Street Journal, top Democrats have resorted to dropping f-bombs and other curse words in interviews, apparently in a bid to appeal to millennials. (She calls out Democratic National Committee chief Tom Perez and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on this, and notes Rep. Maxine Waters’ description of Cabinet members as a “bunch of scumbags.”)

Wasn’t Trump “supposed to be the loudmouth vulgarian,” wonders Noonan. “They are aping what they profess to hate. They excoriated him for lowering the bar. Now look at them.”

Noonan isn’t always right however, particularly when she takes issue with what’s happening on campuses, “that most entrenched bastion of the progressive left, where those with opposing views aren’t even allowed to speak.” She’s talking about the twisted Ann Coulter, scheduled to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, last week.  Factually, the reckless Republican propagandist canceled her own engagement after the two conservative groups sponsoring her withdrew their support.

In addition to Noonan, Bernie Sanders, who, using Coulter’s own words, went on one of his characteristic rants about violations of the First Amendment. Bernie can best help Democrats by not helping Democrats.  Criticizing liberals doesn’t help liberals win the war against an entrenched GOP.

Noonan goes on to say:

“It is a hysteria—a screeching, ignorant wave of sometimes violent intolerance…”

In this case she’s not talking solely about Berkeley, but Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, who allegedly displayed a lack of tolerance when, speaking about a Democratic mayoral candidate who had supported pro-life bills, he declared that such views had no place in the party.  Sanders made similar claims about Jon Ossof, the party’s Georgia hope to turn a red congressional seat blue. Furthermore, he is today criticizing former President Obama for making money from his speeches.  Both Perez and Sanders need to remember it’s Trump and his gang who are the enemy, not the Democrats. No one should really have to tell them that.

Let’s face it, and as Noonan makes clear, “it all smacks of desperation.”

The progressive left have made it quite clear, with their breathless criticisms of their own, that they have no coherent strategy, short of hoping Trump “blows up” before their own party does.

Trump “may not be lucky in all of his decisions or staffers, or in his own immaturities and dramas,” writes Noonan. “But hand it to him a hundred days in: He’s lucky in his main foes.”

In this Noonan is correct.  Democrats, particularly with Bernie Sanders and Tom Perez at the helm, will continue to eat their young, and until the party finds a new face, this self-destructive behavior will continue and the GOP, with Trump at the helm, will triumph.

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Andrew From BestGore
5 years ago

Above comment was meant for Timmy Mahoney, the narcissistic psychopathic misanthrope and no, that is not a compliment.

Andrew From BestGore
5 years ago

Nazis like you make me ashamed to be an American

When the shit hits the fan, I hope your kind (old white American men) are the first to hit the chambers. Your sons and grandsons, gays, African-Americans, etc, will all be better off without your presence. Thank you for giving us tRump. And kindly fuck off back to Twitter (Nazi Central). You and tRump make great bedfellows, Nazi Bitch.

6 years ago

Fuck Bernie! He’s every bit the narcissist as Donald Trump!

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