A FAR better weekend than we could have hoped for.

[wildeyed]

2. If we can postpone the transfer of public wealth to private pockets

that he has planned long enough for his cultist to realize that he has no plans to actually follow through on his populist promises, that will be the win. As you point out, his promises are impossible to actually fulfill, particularly with the current make up of congress. Universal healthcare coverage without higher taxes and/or individual mandate and huge infrastructure investments to goose employment numbers? His mouth wrote a check that his ass can't cash.

And he might provide the real starting point for re-vitalization of the left. That remains to be seen.