Bernie Sanders campaign rendered impotent by #blacklivesmatter fanatics.

See if you can spot the mistake in this tactical response by the Bernie Sanders campaign in dealing with race-baiting professional activists who, to use Hot Air’s phrase, are “successfully performing like a small pack of wolves who have found the weak bison in the herd.” Bernie Sanders was speaking in Seattle, or at least trying to, when this happened:

“We’re shutting this event down — now,” said an activist who suddenly leapt on stage. She approached the microphone where Sanders had just begun speaking, thanking attendees for welcoming him to “one of most progressive cities in the United States of America.” An event organizer attempted to stop the activist, and a heated exchange ensued as the crowd booed.

Eventually, activist Marissa Johnson was allowed to speak.

…yes, the ‘allowed to speak’ part. It should have been ‘escorted from the platform,’ or even ‘arrested.’ On the other hand, I should hesitate to call the aforementioned tactical response a ‘mistake,’ if only because that implies that an alternative tactic was practically viable. On the gripping hand, I can’t make myself get too teary-eyed over a socialist suddenly discovering what happens when you take identity politics to its logical, and honestly rather fetid, conclusion.

As to what the Democratic party can do about this particular problem of theirs? Well, I’d say ‘suffer’ – except that their party bosses aren’t going to tolerate that, more’s the pity. I assume (yes, I know what happens when you assume) that they’ll figure out eventually how to redirect the malignant wind-up toy that is #blacklivesmatter and aim it at us. Which won’t win the Democrats the election, but might keep them from hemorrhaging too many African-American voters.  The political dynamic changes when you’re in a rebuilding cycle, after all; and if the Democratic party leadership hasn’t figured out by now* that they’re going to have to drop back ten yards and punt, then they deserve the electoral spanking that’s coming their way.

OK, yes, they deserve it anyway.  Still, you get what I mean.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: And he’s STILL a better candidate for the Democrats than Hillary Clinton would be! I should invest in whatever company makes Maalox. The DNC is gonna be chugging it by the end of next July…

*Fortunately, if they haven’t figured it all out by now they’re probably impervious to whatever revelations I might be offering them. So I can safely talk about it.  There are advantages in this business to being mildly obscure…

9 thoughts on “Bernie Sanders campaign rendered impotent by #blacklivesmatter fanatics.”

  1. Not buying the theory that these nice folks are just guided missiles launched by the Hillary?

      1. she’s not… and i don’t think she’d hire anyone who’s smarter than she is. bill, tho, IS smart enough. i don’t think he wants her in the WH, it would cramp his style.

        1. Look at it from a slightly different angle.
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          Who does Billary** most need to vote to win the nomination and the general?
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          Do you think Sanders might want to try to wedge that bloc away from her?
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          Mew
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          ** Remember, “first black president” …

  2. Nope, Sanders is learning the hard way “that once you pay the Danegeld you can’t get rid of the Dane”. Since he doesn’t believe in hiring security and he keeps giving up the stage they’re going to keep picking on the easy target. HRC can only wish she controlled them, she does have security so you won’t see them at her events as anything but hecklers.

  3. You know, seven years ago, I was torqued off for weeks when I was defamed as a racist.
    Nowadays, I don’t think I’d bat an eyelash.

  4. What, you mean Balkanization isn’t beautiful?
    The problem with building your coalition out of separate identity groups is the old one – what do you do when one of the identity groups thinks that is time for you to follow and they to lead?

  5. Umm, Moe?
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    I’ve opined elsewhere that this was a Sanders plant. Sanders’ hire of .. Sanders .. as his media person underscores the point.
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    Look, if ol’ Bernie’d gone to Seattle and given a speech, it would have been a yawn-fest. He’s no Obama, as an orator, and the content of his speeches are all online anyway.
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    By *staging* this .. he gets a lot of free press, in places he doesn’t normally *get* press (waves at Moe .. would you have mentioned Sanders in Seattle if not for this?) .. he went and worked the crowd – the important part – and .. it probably helped him hit 28,000 in Portland afterward.
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    While I .. strongly disagree .. with Sanders on some things, I don’t think these are Hillary plants. I think Bernie blew up his own rally .. and that it’s genius politics-as-theater.
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    Mew

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