This is one of several articles I’ve seen later pushing the meme that Republicans are hoping for a Bernie Sanders candidacy. It may very well be true.
It is worthwhile remembering that four years ago Democrats thought that beating Donald Trump would be a no-brainer. Remember Hillary spending her time campaigning in Georgia, trying to pad her inevitable electoral college victory? Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I don’t think the Republicans are any smarter than the Democrats.
I’m not a Bernie bro. I’m still on the almost any Democrat but Biden wagon (though I prefer him to Tulsi), because he can’t seem to avoid laying traps for himself like this one:
Dozens of scientists have endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) sweeping plan to combat global climate change after fellow Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared that “not a single solitary scientist thinks it can work.”
The former vice president derided Sanders’ proposed $16.3 trillion Green New Deal during a campaign stop last week in New Hampshire, adding that “you can not get to zero emissions by 2030. It’s impossible.”
Sanders swung back over the weekend, telling a crowd in Iowa that he would soon unveil “a long list of scientists” who back his plan. The Sanders campaign delivered on Tuesday, releasing a letter of support signed by 57 science professors and researchers from around the country.
“The Green New Deal you are proposing is not only possible, but it must be done if we want to save the planet for ourselves, our children, grandchildren, and future generations,” the letter signed by the scientists said. “Not only does your Green New Deal follow the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s] timeline for action, but the solutions you are proposing to solve our climate crisis are realistic, necessary, and backed by science. We must protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the planet we call home.”
This is a Biden specialty: subverting himself. He practically invited this sort of retaliation, which does him more harm than he did to Sanders with his original remark. We can expect more of this during a general campaign, and we can expect the media to pounce on, and amplify, every such blunder, while giving Trump the comparatively free ride they gave him in 2016. (What percent of voters ever even heard of Trump University, to name only one of Trump’s frauds, prior to November of 2016)
I should add that while we cannot know that Sanders would or would not be the Democrat most easily beaten by Trump, we can know that unlike the Trump who supposedly could not win in 2016, the networks will not give him (or any other Democrat, including Biden) billions of dollars in free publicity, will not cover his rallies from start to finish, will not give him endless appearances on Morning Joe, and will present a united front against his policies, which, I will say again, are nothing more than warmed over 1960s liberalism. But the fact is, they did the same to Hillary, and she won by three million votes despite offering nothing of substance to the American people.
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