The Democratic Center Is Dead, and Bernie Will Benefit All the Way to November

To see the DC pundit Twitter, it appears doomsday is upon the Democratic Party — and American democracy itself. Bernie Sanders (that socialist!) has now taken the front runner position, and now his inevitability is creeping up in the data analytics of professional pollsters.

I won’t crow too much yet, but I will say, I called something like this when I wrote in April 2019:

“I remain convinced that a candidate labeled “Worker” has the best chance to beat Trump — and a candidate labeled “Dogmatic” is almost certain to lose.”

I also wrote Biden was weaker than he appeared because he was a Spiritualist in an election cycle that favors Workers. So it has come to pass. Biden is now in third place by delegate count, and even his vaunted South Carolina firewall may come undone.

Meanwhile, the Dogmatic candidates (those most likely to lose the general election) — Tulsi Gabbard and Julian Castro — are gone now, tossed aside by primary voters wise enough to see that in a culture war…