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Essays and Videos
Regular Democrats Just Aren’t Worried About Bernie
Judging by media coverage and the comments of party luminaries, you
might think Democrats are bitterly polarized over Bernie Sanders’s
presidential bid. Last month, Hillary Clinton declared that “nobody likes” the Vermont senator. Last week, James Carville, who ran Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, said he was “scared to death” of the Sanders campaign, which he likened to “a cult.” Since the beginning of the year, news organization after news organization has speculated that Sanders’s success may set …
“The One Issue That Matters”
THE CRITICS who think Bernie Sanders isn’t Jewish enough—or isn’t Jewish in the right way—now have a clear alternative in the Democratic presidential race: Michael Bloomberg. Not only is the former New York mayor rising in the polls; he’s also contrasting his Jewish identity with that of the senator from Vermont. Late last month, Bloomberg sprinkled a speech at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in South Florida with the kind of religious references (the Ten Plagues, Moses descending from Mount Sinai) and cultural schmaltz (the pickles at Wolfie’s Deli) that …
Impeachment Hurt Somebody. It Wasn’t Trump.
The impeachment struggle is now over. Historians may one day
vindicate Democrats for exposing Donald Trump’s abuse of power. But as
of now, they have lost. Not only will Trump remain president, and not
only does he appear stronger politically than before the impeachment
battle began, but he has succeeded in doing precisely what he wanted in
the first place: He tarred Joe Biden, who last year looked like Trump’s
most formidable Democratic rival, with the kind of vague suspicion of
wrongdoing that presidential candidates …