The Democratic Senators who were also primary candidates

[The Magistrate]

5. The Sooner People Get It Through Their Heads, Sir

That Sanders campaigns not to gain the Democrat Party's nomination for President, but to weaken if not wreck the 'Democratic Establishment', and that for him ousting Trump and ending the Republican majority in the Senate is barely an afterthought to this long-standing purpose, the better off we and our country will be. Once Sanders' supporters face this fact squarely, they may be able to decide honestly what their best course in this election is: voting against Sanders in any future primary, and for Mr. Biden and Democrats all down the ticket to the lowest office on the ballot.

It is probably true that Sanders sees destroying the 'Democratic Establishment' as an essential precondition to defeating Trump et al, and so by his own lights he means it when he says he will do all he can to defeat Trump. But that belief is so self-serving and delusional it deserves not just scorn but contempt.



"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."