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Stop Trying to Make Bernie Happen
He’s never going to happen.
In mid January, January 15th in actual fact I published a story here about how Bernie Sanders would not actually win the Democratic nomination. By late February though, I was sweating. Part of that was because I had a REALLY bad cold which, no joke, might have been coronavirus, but part of it was because I was genuinely concerned at how well Sanders did in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.
In retrospect I can now look back at myself and laugh for reasons I’ll discuss in a moment, but he did place a close second in Iowa and win the other two outright. Now, his win in Nevada was particularly unnerving after the behaviour of his delegates in 2016 and his attacks on the Nevada Culinary Union.
But, I need not have been concerned. In each case including in Nevada (at least by percentage) Sanders did worse than he did in 2016. And In 2016 he lost. He lost by a lot. Now, you can say that the reason for that is that 2016 was a two-person race but 2020 is a kajillion person race, but even that’s not really accurate. The only reason 2016 was a two-person race was because Bernie Sanders capitalised on misogyny and stayed in the race well past the point where he was even arguably viable. If he was going to be the front runner in this race he would have had to do considerably better regardless of how many other names there…
