The DNC’s ‘stop Bernie or Bust’ campaign

Well here we are again — another Democratic Party primary and another unedifying spectacle of Tammany Hall-style machine politics swinging into gear with all the subtlety of Donald Trump’s wig, doing so with the objective of ensuring that anyone but Bernie is ‘selected’ to go head to head with the white supremacist-in-chief, even if it ensures for him a second term.

Stop Bernie or Bust was the DNC’s mantra in 2016 when it came to a rigged process designed to effect Hillary Clinton’s coronation as the 45th president, and just like a dog returning to its own vomit it’s the same in 2020.

Indeed the only difference between 2016 and 2020 is that with the Democratic Party establishment’s preferred candidate this time round, Joe Biden, being the wrong side of hopeless, and with both Warren and Buttigieg increasingly exposed as weak next to Sanders, the DNC has allowed former Republican mayor of New York, the out-of-touch billionaire Michael Bloomberg, to enter the race on a golden (literally in his case) parachute, clearly hoping he can save the day.

Not since Rome’s Praetorian Guard proclaimed Claudius emperor after first dispatching Caligula in AD 41 has such a flagrant political stitch up been undertaken by custodians of an empire.