2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Good Fight [View all]malthaussen
(17,193 posts)When/if Mr Sanders is clearly seen as the front-runner, and acknowledged as such with attendant media fuss and bother, will those who embrace him because he is an "outsider" lose their enthusiasm? Will his campaign start to make compromises with the power brokers that are viewed as invidious by the unwashed mass? There is a possibility, probably remote, that the campaign will begin to implode under the weight of its own success (I can find a cloud in every silver lining).
The other day somebody posted an article which asserted that the millennial generation do recognize that Mrs Clinton is astute, competent, and a consummate player of the political game, and despise her exactly because of that, not despite it. That they want a revolution, and voting for the status quo candidate, however excellent she may be, is not going to satisfy them. While I'm leery of categorizing whole demographic segments in this fashion, it is an illuminating point, which boils down to telling the Clinton people that yes, these children are opposed to her as a conscious and informed decision, and not because they are simply spoiled brats who don't understand the stakes. That Mr Sanders has the overwhelming support of those millennials who choose to be involved at all is clear, but the number of millennials who choose to be involved is still disappointingly small. No doubt there are strategies evolving to address this, but it also should be considered that the last thing Mr Sanders needs is to evoke a reaction among the disaffected of "he's just like all the rest."
-- Mal