How Democrats Should (And Shouldn’t) Court the #NeverBiden Crowd

Today, unity feels impossible. That’s okay, we have months until we’ll need it. (Image Credit: The New Yorker)

The internet is ablaze today. Sanders has announced that he is suspending his presidential campaign; this has turned many a comment threads into steaming piles of vile nonsense. It hurts to see, I think for any of us.

Unless, of course, you are (somehow still) a Donald Trump supporter. Then this is all plays out as a symphony to your ears, a Hans Zimmer arrangement called “Facts Be Damned”, or something. Regardless, this article isn’t for you: enjoy the victory of the day.

Smug. (Image Credit: Daily Kos)

I am, what appears to be, a rare breed. I have been following Senator Sanders nearly since I immigrated to this country 14 years ago. I am a big a fan of him as one can get, and I lie to the left of him on the political spectrum. (This will confuse many, but that means that I am a capitalist, though just barely, and less so with every passing year capitalism fails to serve the vast majority of people it presides over).

I’m not quite to revolution as a requirement — but almost. (Image Credit: Markus Spiske/Unsplash)