Dasvidaniya, Bernie Sanders! He’s gone, people. The self-proclaimed leftist suspended his campaign when it became clear he wasn’t going to win the nomination, which was also clear the day after Super Tuesday. The delegate math didn’t work. And after he was wiped out in the election north of the Mason-Dixon line — aka Super Tuesday II — that was the real end. Once again, black Democrats derailed the Sanders train — and he never recovered. While virtually the entire country was shut down by the Wuhan coronavirus
Now Joe Biden has to become the Democratic nominee in 2020, which has dampened liberal enthusiasm. What’s more, Joe Biden, who is not a great communicator, has to deal with the Never Biden wing of the progressive movement. What’s more, Democratic governors seem to think his 2020 bid is a lost cause. The Republican National Committee was quick to notice, as Political reported on how the current slate of Democratic governors could shape…the 2024 race. Are they already thinking ahead? The article focused mainly on how governors are handling the current coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan (via Political):
Democratic Governors Association admits Joe Biden’s candidacy is a lost cause. https://t.co/O7SDgH78oT photo:twitter.com/RyN7kSddI3
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 2, 2020
I liked the band @DemGovs before it was fashionable.
“But Democratic governors aren’t just having a moment. There are signs they could be changing the party’s agenda for potential presidential candidates for years to come.”https://t.co/4GK5k2UXyP
— David Turner (@A_Tall_Turner) April 2, 2020
Andrew Cuomo’s poll numbers are soaring. Jay Inslee is getting more attention than his failed presidential campaign. Gretchen Whitmer is burnishing her credentials as a possible vice presidential candidate for Joe Biden.
The daily split screen between President Donald Trump and the nation’s governors over the coronavirus pandemic is lending political clout to a handful of Democratic state leaders by contrasting their handling of the crisis with the president’s inconsistent response to it.
But Democratic governors aren’t just having a moment. There are signs they could be changing the party’s pipeline of potential presidential candidates for years to come.
In response to the spread of the virus, governors across the country are issuing stay-at-home orders, closing businesses and enacting massive health care sweeps in their states. People who don’t follow politics are tuning in to their governors’ live streams for the first time — and learning the names of other states’ governors.
The novel coronavirus “is really at the center of governors’ agendas. … This is something where they’re really front and center, and it’s not surprising that you see good reviews from governors because this is what they do every day,” said Jim Hodges, the Democratic former governor of South Carolina. “Things like this give them a chance to shine and people a chance to be known. … I think this is a moment where a lot of them have stepped forward in a way that’s going to burnish their credentials as leaders of the country.”
I mean, I think most people with common sense would know that they need to issue stay-at-home orders, close schools, limit public gatherings, and work as demanding as possible to set up testing sites and get medical supplies, but okay. Politics aside, New York and California have repeatedly received high marks for their handling of the crisis. New York has been hit particularly demanding, with nearly half of all U.S. cases coming from the tri-state area.
But why does this read like an NFL rebuilding moment? I think there’s more talk among Democrats that he’s the best guy to beat Trump, but other than that, there’s nothing. Biden isn’t stimulating, he can’t remember how many grandchildren he has, and right now he needs Jill by his side to minimize the mishaps during those painful videos his campaign is handing out. He’s not the social media candidate. And his agenda won’t be his, it’ll be a far-left gift bag full of horrors (via Hill):
Eight progressive groups said in a joint letter released Wednesday that they fear Biden’s centrist policies will alienate younger voters who hold more liberal views and hinder Democrats’ efforts to unseat President Trump in November. The groups noted that while Biden gained delegates with a string of victories in March, he consistently handed votes to Sanders from voters under 45 in the primaries.
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…a letter from a progressive cohort indicated that some supporters of these groups have no desire to return to customary politics, which they say has caused “endless war, skyrocketing inequality, crushing student loan debt, mass deportations, police murders of black Americans and mass incarceration, schools that have become killing fields,” and more.
“The ‘back to normal’ message has not and will not gain the support and trust of voters of our generation. For so many young people, a return to the ‘before Trump’ is not a sufficiently motivating reason to vote in November,” they wrote. “Why would we want a return to normal? We need a vision of the future, not a return to the past.”
The groups have pressed Biden to enact a litany of policies, including a commitment to switching to 100 percent pristine energy by 2030 for electricity, buildings and transportation, reducing gunshot deaths by 50 percent over a decade, protecting immigrants without legal status from deportation, supporting Medicare for All and backing an annual tax on the “enormous wealth” of the wealthiest 180,000 households in America.
They also demanded that the former vice president appoint prominent officials who supported Sanders or Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, as co-chairs of a possible transition commission.
Yeah, that won’t happen.
“100 percent clean energy within a decade…” is a joke. It’s ridiculous. Oh, and it all but guarantees Trump will win in 2020; the Rust Belt isn’t going to do that, proving once again that adolescent leftists still don’t understand the Constitution, the Electoral College, or math. America isn’t the Northeast and California. It isn’t. We live in a system where the candidate who wins is geographically diverse, not the stiff regional and coastal snobs who think their way is the best because they got some crappy English degree at the cost of a pretty large mortgage and then expect to get Bill Gates’ money to lecture the rest of us on how problematic things are, through the paradigm of political correctness. That’s not how the world works.
In 2012, Republicans faced the same dilemma. The final four GOP candidates were Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul. Romney was the best candidate to beat Obama, but that wasn’t enough. But unlike Biden, Romney could also deliver a speech without sounding like he had a lot of brain farts.
Now, Democrats face a dilemma. Biden may be the best candidate to beat Trump in 2020. That’s why he took off like a rocket when Super Tuesday came around. A lot of Democrats like Bernie, but Biden was the best shot. Plus, Bernie’s hesitation to condemn leftist authoritarian governments like Cuba and China was also a bad move. And no, you can’t say, “What Cuba did on civil rights was bad, but hey, at least now everyone can read.” That’s not condemnation. It’s historical illiteracy, for starters; everyone can read because everyone has been brainwashed. Biden benefited from his name recognition and the fact that Democrats didn’t want this primary to move to the eve of the convention. That’s it. He’s venerable, tardy, and doesn’t know where he is half the time. And there’s no way he’s going to convince the most leftist diehards in the party that he’s some kind of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disciple. Secondly, he’s going to have to adopt some of these crazy ideas to try to excite the Democrats, but that means alienating voters in states that he has to win, like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. There’s no way those people are going to support the Green New Deal. So yeah, if I were a Democrat, I think I’d be looking at 2024 as well, because based on what we’ve seen from Biden so far, that’s the end of it.
