THE PECULIAR WANT OF DIGNITY, DECENCY, OR GRACE TO BE FOUND IN THE REDELESS, CARGO-SHORTS COMMUNIST FOLLOWERS OF BERNARD SANDERS

Summary: When Pete Buttigieg dropped out of the presidential race yesterday, the reaction from Bernard Sanders and his redeless, cargo shorts communist followers was predictable. Sanders himself delivered a pro forma, anodyne “congratulations” to Mayor Pete on his campaign. His followers were not nearly so gracious. Perhaps it was because they were feeling a little berned at the shellacking the Independent Vermont Senator took in South Carolina, where Joe Biden well and truly pwned his ass. Nonetheless, the commentary from Sanders nation was churlish, childish, and only calculated to add to the reservoir of ill will already facing Sen. Sanders. Of course, the fact that both Mayor Pete and Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be endorsing Joe Biden before today is out will only provide another opportunity for Sanders nation to demonstrate its smallness of mind.

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Cathedral City, March 2, 2020 — The Democratic center, which a week ago we thought could not hold (pace, William Butler Yeats) against the seeming socialist onslaught of Bernard Sanders, seems to be coalescing against him. After Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar withdrew from the presidential race, both of them made it clear that their endorsement would not be going to Bernard Sanders, but to Joe Biden.

While Sanders still leads Biden by 12 (count ‘em, 12!) whole delegates, he still got his ass pwned in South Carolina. At least for now, Sanders may be the front runner, but he is emphatically not the prohibitive favorite. And that has Sanders nation just doing a massive bern.

When Sanders nation doesn’t get its way, when their Vermont Messiah gets berned, as he did in Iowa, where he came in behind Buttigieg in the delegate count, or pwned as he so unquestionably was by Joe Biden in South Carolina, Sanders nation reacts very badly.

Though Sanders nation vociferously denies the existence of Berniebros, actual empirical evidence of their existence is clear, convincing, and beyond any reasonable doubt. As long ago as early 2016, such leftist luminaries as The Nation’s Joan Walsh were warning voters about the Berniebro phenomenon, calling out both Sanders and his campaign for the intemperate and often abusive language employed by supporters of their Vermont Senator.

Not surprisingly, Sanders nation pilloried Joan Walsh unmercifully for having had the temerity to question their sour, superannuated, shtetl Stalinist for his ridiculous cult of personality. When Walsh pointed out that Sanders has always had a “tin ear” on matters of gender, Sanders nation proved her case by pouring down upon her torrents of misogynistic vitriol.

Sadly, Sanders nation has only gotten worse over the last four years. Call out Vermont Messiah for his hypocrisy and expect that the votaries of his personality cult will abuse you as being a corrupt neoliberal.

Remind Sanders nation that Hillary Clinton defeated him in the 2016 primary by almost 4m votes, and that she beat Donald Trump in the popular election by almost 3m votes, or when you note that just enough resentful Berniebros voted for Trump in the general election in 2016 to deprive Hillary Clinton of electoral college victories in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, and Sanders nation will pour crap on you by every means available.

With Mayor Pete and Sen. Klobuchar out of the race and endorsing Joe Biden, we may confidently expect another tantrum from the Berniebros of Sanders nation. The response of the Party to the misdoings of Bernard Sanders and his cult of personality should be simple and forthright. Democrats should withhold voting for Sanders and loyally stick with Joe Biden.

The Party itself should modify its own rules posthaste to make another hostile takeover bid by Bernard Sanders and his redeless, cargo-shorts communist followers impossible. Caucuses should be done away with, as should jungle primaries and open primaries. No individual should be permitted to seek the Democratic nomination for president who cannot prove by clear and convincing evidence that he or she has been a Democrat for at least the last 17 years.

These are reforms the Democratic Party should set in train in the spring of 2017. It is a mystery why the DNC has failed to discipline its processes. Yet, at the moment, from somewhere beyond this world, humorist Will Rogers must be smiling as we invoke his devastating sally: “I’m not a member of an organized political party; I’m a Democrat.”

Democrats need to get a lot better organized. Yesterday. They need to reject the well-meaning but foolish counsels of “when they go low, we go high.” Instead, Democrats need to stop believing that fighting dirty makes them illiberal or morally blameworthy. They go low, we meet ‘em in the basement with a switchblade. They pull a knife, we pull a gun; they send one of ours the hospital, we send one of theirs to the morgue.

Shit’s about to get real. Hopefully Bernard Sanders will discover how real shit is about to get and will himself drop out of the race.

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Paul S. Marchand, Esq. is a dyspeptic Democratic attorney who lives in Cathedral City, where he served two terms on the Cathedral city city Council. He currently practices law in the adjacent Republican retirement redoubt of Rancho Mirage, which just recently turned down an In-N-Out Burger. Having been abused by the redeless votaries of the cult of personality of that sour, superannuated shtetl Stalinist, that mendacious misogynist, that loudmouth Leninist loser, that bloviating blowhard Burlington Bolshevik Bernard Sanders, Mr. Marchand is all out of fucks to give. He regards Donald Trump and Bernard Sanders as alter egos one to the other, and has nothing but disdain for both of them.