As Senator
Bernie Sanders surges in the polls, the establishment is now in a
very public panic over fears that he may win both Iowa and New
Hampshire, gaining him additional momentum, Brent Budowsky writes for
The Hill.
The
Democratic party elite and support infrastructure are on the attack
against the popular democratic socialist, with Nancy Pelosi
criticizing his widely supported “Medicare for all” plan on
Wednesday, an attack echoed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
These
attacks were followed by unabashed polemics from the editorial board
of the Washington Post on Thursday, a newspaper owned by a
billionaire who would not want to see a Sanders presidency, Budowsky
notes. The Post degraded the Vermont senator’s campaign as
“fiction-filled,” much like the criticism heard against Barack
Obama in 2008.
The very
visible and sudden panic as the Iowa caucus approaches shows that
Sanders has been largely underestimated. His ideas and inspiring
message that the government of the US can — and should — do
better, clearly resonates with a frustrated population.
Sanders has
been accused by many of having big dreams, but his supporters assert
that, at the very least, he has them. Clinton, on the other hand,
appears to offer more of the same, with vague promises of a slow rate
of progress. Her flip-flopping and “evolving” politics have
resulted in her being considered “dishonest” by a large
percentage of millennial voters.
Sanders has
clearly surpassed Clinton in generating excitement but, instead of
the Democratic establishment embracing that enthusiasm and helping
his momentum insure voters come out and bring the party a win, party
bigwigs consistently dismiss and even insult his campaign and those
who support him.
The results
of the upcoming primaries will tell the tale of whether the old guard
of the Democratic Party has it right this time.
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