(Washington Examiner)
Bernie Sanders officially kicked off his quest to be Joshua. His opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination hope he’ll turn out to be Moses.
The question to be answered over the next 18 months is: Will Sanders be known as the leader who pointed the way through Trumpian times, offering Democrats the twin tablets of Democratic and socialist thought but never quite entering the Promised Land? Or will it be Bernie, not one of his prized disciples, who takes his party across the finish line and into the White House?
For all the media’s jubilant recollections of the Clinton era and giddiness about smashing glass ceilings in 2016, a sizable chunk of the Democratic base was already over it. And no one was better positioned to capitalize on the sentiment than the Brooklyn-born Vermont socialist. Read more
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