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No, out-of-touch corporate Democratic consultant, Bernie Sanders is not the reason Trump won in 2016.

Hillary Clinton is, and her campaign, which was the worst since John Kerry’s.

Not to mention the corporate media. And, of course, James Comey and the Guiliani-led conspiracy in the New York office of the FBI.

And btw, Hillary refused to even campaign in the Midwest, the supposed Democratic firewall. How arrogant was that? Was that Bernie’s fault? Couldn’t be that that was the reason she lost them?

Their very occasional rulings against Trump are just” a smokescreen” for their support of his fascist project. “John Roberts is Still in the Tank for John Roberts,” Alex Galbraith reminds us at Salon.

He’s never sounded more than a tout on The Price is Right than he does touring the press around his vandalism projects on the White House campus.

Marsha Blackburn insists that “socialism stops at the Tennessee state line.”

Why aren’t the Democrats pointing out the socialism for the rich only is the core principle of Republicanism?

And why aren’t they reacting more forcefully to the Republicans’ ludicrous, incoherent flinging of words like “socialism” and “communism” around? Why aren’t they demanding that Republicans define exactly what those words mean?

Why won’t the corporate media overlords allow their reporters to defend themselves when Trump starts berating them and their profession, thus enabling his assault on any kind of independent journalism?

They need to insist that they are there to protect the public interest, to keep the public informed with FACTS.

We know the answer.

It took Sen. Office to break through the Democrats’ fatal gentility threshold and fight fire with fire. Nothing should be off limits about Trump–certainly not his lurid, louche personal relations.

His Wall Street advisors wanted the conclusion that (R-WD) Erskine Bowles and (R) Alan Simpson predictably came up, which included benefit cuts for working Americans and lower tax rates for the wealthy.

Now, incredibly, the zombie commission has stirred in the form of a new bi–partisan conspiracy to allegedly address future Social Security shortfalls. You can bet right now that they won’t recommend making the wealthy pay their fair share by lifting the income cap on SS taxes. Democrat Dick Durbin, a prime mover of the conspiracy, n is now being advised on this project by–you guessed it–Erskine Bowles himself. Not surprisingly, Durbin voted to adopt the disastrous Simpson-Bowles proposals.

For Air Mail, I blurb the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Winter’s Tale, now running in Central Park.

He’s not going to go high in response to Trump’s sewer insults–he meets them head on AND articulates public policy goals that illustrate the vast difference between what each believes in.

were in total denial that a Trump would ever be possible in this country. But what did they think as they allowed economic inequality to engulf the country? As they rescued the banksters and told the foreclosed that they were on their own?

They were immune to the lessons of history, apparently oblivious to something called the Weimar Republic. And then they seemingly believed it was impossible that after the traitorous damage Trump wrought in his first time, he could ever possibly be voted back in. Again, completely ignoring the lessons of history. High IQs, lots of degrees, and not the emotional intelligence they were born with: that is the Democratic establishment.