On "Hardball" tonight, Chris Matthews put up a few wise words from David Plouffe, some of which I reproduce below:
How can Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner and close to presumptive nominee lose five of the six last contests? Doesn’t that suggest the race could somehow be changing and Bernie Sanders now has a shot?
Negative….
I believe Hillary Clinton has zero chance of not being the Democratic nominee.
Plouffe explains the why of the "zero." His explanation also implicitly explains why Bernie Sanders is now seen as a net negative by those of us more interested in crushing the right's barbarians than watching the left fight internally.
This is not the time for that, since this year portends Democrats' best possible shot at electorally slaughtering the right, from state houses to White House. Sen. Sanders should be expending his considerable talents in energizing the young and idealistic in opposition to the wretched scourge of modern Republicanism — and not the very establishment that is singularly capable of taking Republicanism down.
After the joyous slaughter, Sanders will of course be free to resume his attacks on by-then President Clinton and the Democratic establishment. Indeed, such post-election attacks would be salubrious, and welcome. For the moment, however, they are merely counterproductive — to Sanders's own left.
I trust this brief post explains why all the irritation, to repeat myself, by those of us more interested in crushing the right's barbarians than watching the left fight internally.
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