Such an excellent article! And it certainly highlights the outrage, the panic, the fierce opposition by the corporate elite to We the People rising up and actually demanding true democracy and economic, racial, social, and environmental justice. How dare we!?! Well, we're done with our complicity with the merchants of death. We are rising up! Rising up and demanding a just and caring society that works for all of us. No more status quo! No more brainwashing us into oblivion and convincing us to enable the death march into civilization collapse and extinction so you can line your pockets with your late stage greed. NO MORE! We the People are finding our voices, we are fighting back, and we are absolutely insisting on Love and Justice for all! NOW! — Molly
Sanders’s resounding win thanks to a multiracial coalition in Nevada has created a state of near panic within the Democratic establishment, causing regular MSNBC contributors to grasp wildly at Nazi analogies and Russia scaremongering.
The Berniegeddon is upon us! It’s France falling to the Nazis in World War II! It’s the Russians! It’s the end of everything! Flee! Flee for your lives!
Sorry about that. Just trying out for a talking head guest spot on MSNBC.
Vermont senator and Brooklyn native Bernie Sanders ate like a big dog in Nevada last night. At the time of this writing, with 60 percent of the vote tallied, Sanders is pulling down a mighty 46.0 percent. His closest rival, Joe Biden, is a dust speck in the rear view at 19.6 percent, a whopping 26 points behind.
Pete Buttigieg is currently at 15.3 percent in Nevada, and Elizabeth Warren is at 10.1 percent. Amy Klobuchar stands at a dismal 4.8 percent, Tom Steyer is at worse at 4.1 percent, and Tulsi Gabbard is limping in at 0.1 percent.
Sanders won every county in the top half of the state except Pershing, from the Oregon/Idaho border all the way down to Carson City and across the state to Ely. He won Las Vegas and the surround in the southern tip.
Sanders dominated the Nevada Caucus in more sub-categories than I have space to list. According to the entrance polls, Sanders won every age demographic — 17 to 29, 30 to 44, 45 to 64 — save one: The 65 and older set broke for Biden. Sanders captured a majority of votes from Nevada’s Latinx voters, white voters, union households, non-union households, voters with college degrees, voters without college degrees, Democrats, Independents, women and men. He received 27 percent of votes from Black voters (more than all other candidates except for Biden, who received 39 percent). And importantly to his overall campaign strategy, Sanders won the votes of a large number of first-time caucus-goers.
The delegate count will not be released until all the numbers are in, but Sanders is on track to emerge with a clear plurality. This remains largely meaningless three states into the contest, but with the South Carolina primary and the mega-vote on Super Tuesday taking place within the next nine days, Sanders has an opportunity to make himself nigh unstoppable if his momentum holds.
Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe went on MSNBC to break down the race as it currently stands. “If it’s March 3rd,” he said, “and we’re talking about Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Warren, Biden, Bloomberg, and Sanders, and everybody’s in, Bernie’s going to win almost all the delegates he needs to build an impenetrable delegate lead. That’s just math. It’s not my opinion, it’s just simple math.”
Plouffe’s sober assessment of the state of the race, combined with Sanders’s resounding Nevada victory, had a strange and terrible effect on the minds of a number of MSNBC regulars. No longer content to ignore or dismiss Sanders’s status as frontrunner, that network’s top names spent the bulk of Saturday evening in a state of near panic, weaving a tapestry of impending doom out of literal Nazi analogies and Russia scaremongering.
“Right now, it’s about 1:15 Moscow time,” said James Carville, the longtime Democratic establishment strategist and occasional Gollum impersonator. “This thing is going very well for Vladimir Putin. I promise you. He’s probably staying up watching this right now. How you doing, Vlad?”
MSNBC Host Joy Reid, for her part, smashed the panic button straight through the table in a breathless aria for the ages regarding the seeming menace of Sanders supporters in the face of puddle-bound Democratic establishment candidates.
“They’re turning the tables over and they don’t care what the potential result is,” said Reid of Sanders voters:
They’re the hungriest. He only had to consolidate them, and the moderates, the sort of mushy moderates, think that they have the luxury of luxuriating on whether they’ll have someone who can speak six languages, you know, maybe today I want this woman who’s from the Midwest and, you know, maybe I’ll go with the vice president…. No one is as hungry, angry, enraged and determined as Sanders voters. Democrats need to sober up and figure out what the hell they are going to do about it.
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