Thursday, March 05, 2020

Tim Pool's Super Tuesday exegesis

Really good vid that's worth watching all the way through (at 1.75X speed, anyway):


Pool's main point is that the country as a whole is not by any means ready for a radical candidate like Bernie Sanders—a man who openly promotes socialism and flaunts his utter lack of economics knowledge. Average Democrat voters are—wonder of wonders—generally sane people who skew toward middle-of-the-road policy preferences. The Twitterverse might lead one to believe that the left's radical fringe has taken over the Democrat party, but out in the real world, this just isn't true. Pool makes the sinister observation that Sanders has attracted many unsavory personalities to his campaign, which is why one must take seriously the rumbling threats of violence that issue from the seething Bernie Bros crowd every now and then. These people are going to feel cheated when Bernie loses the nomination to Joe Biden, who is now clearly the front-runner. The loss to Biden will be even more painful if the Democrats go through the arduous exercise of a brokered convention, thus bringing up the specter of 2016, when Bernie Sanders had been cheated in sooth through the machinations of the infernal DNC. Quite a few short fuses in the Sanders crowd are going to end up doing something physical to express their anger at the Dem side of the political process, and even the non-violent Bernistas will take a Bernie-or-bust attitude that will keep them from voting for Biden in November. Pool thinks that all of this indicates a huge landslide victory in the making for Donald Trump later this year; I think it's possible, but I'm not sure it'll be on the scale of Reagan/Mondale or Nixon/McGovern. That said, I've been wrong before.



2 comments:

  1. Well, it's not like Bernie supporters are shooting members of Congress. Oh, wait. Never mind.

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