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Charlie Pierce: It's Time for the 2016 Primary to End.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31064861/bernie-sanders-wins-nevada-caucuses-frontrunner/
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
FEB 23, 2020
OK. Hug your kids. Walk your dog. Have a drink. Smoke some weed. Eat some edibles. Gobble some shrooms. Meditate. Contemplate. Ruminate. Calm down. Find peace. Take a breath. Take a pill. Take a break. Calm down, Ringo, and, for the love of god, chill the fck out, Yolanda. Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses. He won handily. He won easily. As a matter of fact, he probably won Saturday night last week, when 75 percent of the voters cast early ballots. Bernie Sanders is the clear frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. He is the clear frontrunner because he and his people have been developing a strategy for five years and they have been executing it splendidly. Those are the facts on the ground and they are incontestable.
(One solid indication of the depth of his appeal is that, almost immediately after the New Hampshire primary, the culinary workers union in Nevada slammed him over Medicare For Allbut, on Saturday, the actual membership of that powerful union turned out for him in droves.)
Of course, none of that prevented a general freakout on television and online. Chris Matthews compared the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history to the triumphant Wehrmacht. James Carville looked very much like he might stroke out right there on live TV. Heres what these two galoots, as well as the Sanders partisans who see Bill n Hill behind every tree, dont seem to understand: the Clintonized Democratic party is dead. It died in November of 2016 and it has been replaced even in warm, pointless nostalgia by the Obama years. Its time to move on. Its time for the 2016 Democratic primaries to end. Come down out of your cave in the hills and turn in your weapons and greet the 21st century.
Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg, the man who will unify us to turn the page to a bright new day in which we will galvanize and not polarize, gave a speech early in the evening that, for sheer optimistic inspiration, lacked only a bell and a guy intoning, Bring out your dead. (There was one great moment on MSNBC when Steve Kornacki told the panel that, according to the networks entrance polling, Buttigieg didnt register among black voters. At all.) On the other side, the Sanders people have started measuring the drapes already. People supporting other candidates are being told to get in line or get the hell out. (In fact, that he has managed to get to this position with a national staff containing some people whose only apparent political skill is being pissed on television and snotty online is a further measure of what a formidable candidate he is.) This prompted pushback, and the pushback prompted more pushback, until the desert itself was alight with the fires from a thousand flaming heads.
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BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
FEB 23, 2020
OK. Hug your kids. Walk your dog. Have a drink. Smoke some weed. Eat some edibles. Gobble some shrooms. Meditate. Contemplate. Ruminate. Calm down. Find peace. Take a breath. Take a pill. Take a break. Calm down, Ringo, and, for the love of god, chill the fck out, Yolanda. Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses. He won handily. He won easily. As a matter of fact, he probably won Saturday night last week, when 75 percent of the voters cast early ballots. Bernie Sanders is the clear frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. He is the clear frontrunner because he and his people have been developing a strategy for five years and they have been executing it splendidly. Those are the facts on the ground and they are incontestable.
(One solid indication of the depth of his appeal is that, almost immediately after the New Hampshire primary, the culinary workers union in Nevada slammed him over Medicare For Allbut, on Saturday, the actual membership of that powerful union turned out for him in droves.)
Of course, none of that prevented a general freakout on television and online. Chris Matthews compared the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history to the triumphant Wehrmacht. James Carville looked very much like he might stroke out right there on live TV. Heres what these two galoots, as well as the Sanders partisans who see Bill n Hill behind every tree, dont seem to understand: the Clintonized Democratic party is dead. It died in November of 2016 and it has been replaced even in warm, pointless nostalgia by the Obama years. Its time to move on. Its time for the 2016 Democratic primaries to end. Come down out of your cave in the hills and turn in your weapons and greet the 21st century.
Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg, the man who will unify us to turn the page to a bright new day in which we will galvanize and not polarize, gave a speech early in the evening that, for sheer optimistic inspiration, lacked only a bell and a guy intoning, Bring out your dead. (There was one great moment on MSNBC when Steve Kornacki told the panel that, according to the networks entrance polling, Buttigieg didnt register among black voters. At all.) On the other side, the Sanders people have started measuring the drapes already. People supporting other candidates are being told to get in line or get the hell out. (In fact, that he has managed to get to this position with a national staff containing some people whose only apparent political skill is being pissed on television and snotty online is a further measure of what a formidable candidate he is.) This prompted pushback, and the pushback prompted more pushback, until the desert itself was alight with the fires from a thousand flaming heads.
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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Charlie Pierce: It's Time for the 2016 Primary to End. (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
OP
He hasn't counted out Biden, but is underscoring the need to ultimately coalesce...
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
#5
Not one thing about these primaries is gonna change just because he said it should.
ancianita
Feb 2020
#8
dchill
(38,472 posts)1. "...the fires from a thousand flaming heads."
Flaming, but still talking.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dsc
(52,155 posts)2. He hates Pete, I get it
he can go fuck himself.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Nanjeanne
(4,950 posts)3. More from Pierce
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
denem
(11,045 posts)4. Oh yeah. Let's call it quits and nominate Bernie without delay.
What a maroon.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)5. He hasn't counted out Biden, but is underscoring the need to ultimately coalesce...
...behind the ultimate nominee, even if it's Sanders:
For weeks now, Democrats opposed to Sanders, as well as the nervous-in-the-service Never Trump Republicans, have been acting as though Warrens primary function in the field was to take out Sanders as their suicide bomber. That was as stupid as it was insulting. But, as of Saturday night, she doesnt have a choice any more. Her path is still there, but its narrowing and Sanders is the fight in front of her now. Otherwise, its Sanders, Biden, and Bloombergs bottomless wallet.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
denem
(11,045 posts)7. I have my fingers crossed for Biden on Super Tuesday.
They are short of moolah . A week ago the campaign had one office in CA. Sanders 23. Bloomberg 20 with 400 paid staff.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)10. I've given $100 in the past week
I think I can spare more (maybe they'll stop texting me ).
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Baclava
(12,047 posts)6. Bullshit, let the voters decide, not talking heads
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ancianita
(36,023 posts)8. Not one thing about these primaries is gonna change just because he said it should.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)9. It Is Over. The Revolution Won. Everybody Drop Out Right Fucking Now
Yes, Do It Today
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden