Re: [Marxism] How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders - The New York Times

[Ralph Johansen via Marxism]

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Louis Proyect

   (Some Political Revolution that avoided directly attacking the
   shittiest presidential candidate of the Democratic Party since
   Grover Cleveland.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html 



Maybe so. But also, and maybe more to the point, on momentum against 
Sanders in the South and aftermath: Fear Pervades Black Politics, and 
Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression 
https://www.blackagendareport.com/fear-pervades-black-politics-and-makes-us-agents-our-own-oppression.


I think that the pro-Bernie Black columnist Glen Ford here slights the 
genuine fears of long-time, insecure, settled, voting African Americans, 
who have a justified fear of another four years of Trump and "the white 
man's party," and who may not think that Bernie, whatever the merits of 
his program, is as sure a bet to defeat Trump as is Biden.


Ford clearly recognizes that fear but I don't think it helps in the 
circumstances to attack his fellow Blacks for it by again attaching 
Malcolm X's 'we's sick" to them. It has a long, painful history. It's as 
Trump says dismissing the unfairness of testing the elite in sports, 
business and politics before the rest of us, "a fact of life."


More appositely, what does anyone propose doing about it? One thing, 
first, is to pinpoint the responsibility of what he calls the 
self-serving "Black Misleadership Class," who in conducting their 
constituents through the thicket of American politics have long since 
abandoned their class and ethnic origins.



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[Marxism] How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders - The New York Times

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(Some Political Revolution that avoided directly attacking the shittiest 
presidential candidate of the Democratic Party since Grover Cleveland.)


It was late January when Zephyr Teachout, a liberal law professor allied 
with Mr. Sanders, wrote a column in The Guardian alleging that Mr. Biden 
had “a big corruption problem.” Mr. Sirota, the Sanders aide, who is 
known for his voluble and combative online persona, quickly blasted out 
her column to his large email list. A new phase of conflict between Mr. 
Sanders and Mr. Biden seemed to be underway.


But Mr. Sanders put a stop to it. “It is absolutely not my view that Joe 
is corrupt in any way,” Mr. Sanders told CBS News.


In private, Mr. Sanders’s campaign went further, according to two people 
familiar with the internal turmoil. As punishment for stirring the 
controversy, Mr. Sirota, who is based in Colorado, was barred from 
traveling for the campaign outside of visits to its Washington headquarters.


The conflict over Ms. Teachout’s column was part of a long-running 
debate within the Sanders campaign about what approach to take with Mr. 
Biden. A small group of advisers — including Mr. Tulchin, Ms. Turner and 
Mr. Sirota — regularly pleaded with Mr. Sanders to attack the former 
vice president.


But Mr. Sanders resisted, giving speech after speech scorching unnamed 
establishment Democrats but declining to pursue Mr. Biden directly. He 
ruled out several lines of attack against the former vice president 
because they touched on Mr. Biden’s role in the Obama administration, 
which Democratic primary voters revere.


Mr. Shakir and a second senior aide, Ari Rabin-Havt, took Mr. Sanders’s 
side and repeatedly reminded other campaign officials that Mr. Sanders 
was the ultimate decision maker on the campaign. In conversations with 
associates, both men agreed that it might make sense to criticize Mr. 
Biden in a sharper way. But they said Mr. Sanders could not be persuaded 
to do so: He and Jane liked the Bidens personally, and their word was final.


full: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html


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