Don’t blame Wasserman Schultz for Sanders’s political failures - By Jonathan Capehart
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Now, let me weigh in on another aspect of this email scandal. The malicious missives do not prove that the DNC thwarted the will of the people and denied Sanders the nomination. Folks who invoke the “thumb on the scale” phrase are the worst offenders. Believing this requires one to ignore facts. Let me just highlight two of them.
Yeah, the Democratic debate schedule made no sense, as debates took place on odd nights, at random hours and even during the NFL playoffs. People thought the DNC and Clinton were trying to hide. But the debates were where Clinton shined brightest. Her ability to talk both domestic and foreign policy with ease only served to highlight Sanders’s deficiencies.
Sanders only has himself and his campaign to blame for their inability to appeal to the core constituencies of the Democratic Party that determine who gets the nomination. The senator from Vermont got blown out in the South. That the Sanders campaign dismissed her victories there as being in “historically red states” that are from “the most conservative part of this great country” was a slap in the face to the black voters whose overwhelming votes were the key to Clinton’s ultimate victory. And Sanders’s inability or unwillingness to transform his massive crowds into registered Democrats who could vote in the New York primary showed a campaign that seemed more interested in sending a message than in making his political revolution a politically viable force.
Wasserman Schultz and the DNC are not the reasons Sanders will not be accepting the Democratic nomination for president this week. He and his campaign are. Primaries, like all elections, have consequences. That Sanders’s supporters refuse to accept them says more about them than it does about a system they swear is rigged against them.
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