Bernie Sanders Goes to War With Hillary Allies

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday pushed back against criticism he received after saying this week that he is a millionaire.

“I didn’t know that it was a crime to write a good book, which turned out to be a best-seller,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate told a crowd in Gary, Ind.

I didn’t know it was a crime to start a business and employ tens of thousands of people either, but he sure likes to rail against such entities. If only they had taken up the moral beacon that is writing a bad book. Like most good communists, Bernie’s actually disposition is “do as I say, not as I do.” He paints himself as the Marxist grandpa for his young millennial supporters and but he still really likes his three houses when the cameras are off.

ThinkProgress did respond to Bernie’s brush back and had this to say.

Jodi Enda, the editor in chief of ThinkProgress, said in a statement that her website’s work is not reviewed before publication by CAP or its action fund, and that the groups “had nothing to do with the article or video about Senator Sanders or articles related to any other political leader.” She said the website “will not take sides in the Democratic primaries,” and suggested that Mr. Sanders was trying to bully the website in response to posts he does not like.

That’s exactly what he’s trying to do and it’ll probably work. Unlike 2016, Sanders now has a lot of clout within the party that he’s not even a member of. His followers are rabid and loyal and they will not sit by and watch the Clinton wing take him down again. If CAP and ThinkProgress want to exist in a few years, they’ll probably have to cave here.

It is nice to see all this infighting as it shows the deep fractures within the Democratic party. As I posted earlier this morning, you have shots being fired between Pelosi and AOC on Sunday as well. While a lot of the media are already booking their victory party tickets in 2020, assuming a Democrat will win, I think they underestimate how brutal the primary is going to be. It’s going to make Trump taking on the GOP establishment in 2016 look like child’s play. Whoever emerges as the nominee is going to be beaten to a pulp.

Sanders is not coming to play around this time either. When Biden enters, then things will get really interesting. And who does Obama endorse? Imagine if Hillary and Obama both come out for Biden and how angry that’s going to make a huge portion of Democratic voters.

Much like the Never Trump movement, there is a movement behind the scenes to sandbag Sanders within the Democratic establishment. They believe his radical, socialist policies won’t play in the battleground states and that it will cost them the House. They may be right but I’m not sure they have the firepower to stop him this time.