Respectable Lawyer

Absolutely, honestly that calculation was the theme of the entire primary and escalated as voting continued and Bernie's position improved. They blew up the Iowa caucus. They reached for union leadership help in Nevada. In the end, they openly rejected young leftists

Wow, audacious maneuver: "Your campaign is absolutely dead in the water. Want to endorse me?" Truly shocking.

Biden was the one dead in the water, and, again, why not endorse Sanders?

Dems learned the tactical lesson from the 2016 Republican primary well. There was only ever one way to deal with an upstart insurgent disliked by the party's establishment, and that was to consolidate the anti-insurgent vote behind a single option.

Absolutely, but they're about to learn why that's not actually a "solution" in the end

The idea that getting the weak performers to quit before super tuesday being a master stroke or, in fact very unusual at all, is pretty bizarre to me.

The telegraphed move. Every single cable show for weeks on end was saying will the moderates coalesce and wil the progressives coalesce lol.

What was the "master stroke"? Being an actual Democrat? Don't get me wrong, I wanted Bernie to win too, but one thing I've never understood is the sense of entitlement so many of his supporters seem to have to the entire weight of the party being thrown behind his candidacy. 1/

Hi, I’m a life long Democrat. I will support the nominee in November. But the DNC doesn’t represent my political interests. They are openly hostile to them, in fact. Bernie is a much better representation of Democratic priorities, which is why “Actual Democrat” is a joke.