The 2020 Race Is Going Just Like Bernie Sanders Wanted

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9. No, a number of other things are going on. But #1

is that Sanders stands out, a group of 1 radical, oppositional candidate who is disliked and distrusted by many and ardently supported by his followers, which makes for lots of opportunistic press coverage.

The others so far are seen as two or three clusters: The good, solid Democrats toward the top from whom our next president will likely come, their worthy colleagues in the middle to lower strata who probably won't be able to pull up into competition, and a handful in the bottom stratum who are not good ideological fits for the party and are presumably in, or possibly will be in, for self aggrandizement.

Sanders great success is that his success means he is not classed with the others in that last group. In being a controversy-stirring populist leader, Sanders is benefiting from the example of Trump, who is his counterpart on the right.