The Politics of Anti-Politics
This is a post about Bernie Sanders, and also about his once and (maybe) future supporters. I write this post with full awareness that what I am about to say is likely to piss off people, including people who are friends of mine. My goal is not to troll them or antagonize them, but I expect I will do so, and for that I am sorry. The bottom line, though, is that I think Bernie Sanders was and is a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign. Moreover, much of the discourse coming out of the Sanders campaign, and especially from Sanders supporters, lacks a recognition, or care about, the basic nature of politics. Which is OK as a philosophical proposition (I mean, you do you), but does not advance the ball of becoming the nominee for a political party and eventually get elected President, which was the ostensible goal of this exercise in the first place. Sanders and his supporters ran an anti-political political campaign, and the fundamental incoherence of that enterprise is what ultimat