Unlike the last guy Democrats nominated who looked fine on paper.
The Halperin analysis is worth taking seriously because it follows the actual logic of where the Democratic Party’s energy lives right now. DSA candidates just won primaries in New York and Colorado. The progressive caucus chairs published a resolution promising to kill the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and federalize elections the moment they take back power. Gavin Newsom — nominally the frontrunner — is under active DOJ investigation and can’t bring himself to clearly oppose socialism when the cameras are rolling. Josh Shapiro, the supposed moderate alternative, has “failed to put a stake in the sand against socialism” according to Halperin’s own reporting.
Into that vacuum walks Bernie. Name recognition through the roof. Grassroots fundraising machine already built. Strong in Iowa and New Hampshire. A consistent message he has been delivering for sixty years without deviation. And a base that genuinely believes he was stolen from them twice — which, to be fair to them, isn’t entirely wrong.
