After listening to Hillary Clinton’s recent chat with Howard Stern, I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that members of the centrist wing of my beloved Democratic Party would rather see Trump reelected than cast their lot with Bernie Sanders.
I think we all agree that the worst Democrat is generally better than the best Republican on issues like judicial nominees, reproductive rights, environmental protections, etc.
STERN: Bernie could have endorsed you quicker.
CLINTON: I don’t talk to him. We did when he finally endorsed me and all that.
Yes, Bernie ran a spirited campaign and, yes, there were vast ideological differences between the Bernie and Hillary blocs of the party and, yes, the healing was long in coming, if it came at all.
“One of the many things that makes Donald Trump angry is that Bernie Sanders does not seem to hold grudges. In recent speeches, Trump has pointed to the information that has come out, through WikiLeaks’ disclosures of John Podesta’s e-mails, about the Clinton team’s attitude toward Sanders during the primaries: the slights (‘doofus’), the schemes (‘where would you stick the knife?’), and the eye-rolling (‘socialist math’). Perhaps worst of all—at least from Trump’s point of view—was Donna Brazile’s passing along of debate questions. ‘Now, Bernie Sanders should be angry right? Shouldn’t he be angry?’ Trump asked a crowd in Florida. He sounded a little bit puzzled—he would be so mad.”
