On Yesterday's Primaries

Yesterday's primary results would appear to improve the chances of a November contest between neo-fascist demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Rump swept all of the primaries on the Rethuglican side, while Clinton picked up every state but Rhode Island, whose open primary was won by Sen. Sanders.  For those in the Beltway punditocracy and corporate media who want us to believe that Rump is "pivoting" to a more "Presidential" persona, one only need look at last night's rambling, self- congratulatory victory speech by Rump, which was marked by very nasty personal, misogynist attacks on Secretary Clinton of the kind he normally reserves for his Rethug opponents.

In the Democratic race, with Clinton needing only 36% of the remaining delegates, the focus is on how Sen. Sanders campaigns in the states yet to vote (and no one should be calling on the Senator to drop out;  people in those remaining states deserve to have their ballot count, regardless of the final outcome). Clinton praised Sen. Sanders for his role in championing Medicare-for-all, raising the minimum wage and attacking income inequality, and getting dark money out of politics. Sanders' best option in the coming weeks would be to turn his guns more on the threat to America of a Rethug Presidency represented by their frontrunner, while not shying away from policy-oriented debates with Clinton.

One very interesting poll that's being discussed in the context of "millennial" voters is the one out of Harvard's Institute of Politics.  The poll indicates that these young voters, including many who have been inspired by Sen. Sanders' campaign, have shifted away from Republican politics, most significantly in the past year as the bigoted policies and extreme rhetoric of Rethug elected officials and Presidential candidates moved further and further to the right. That's bad news for those wishful thinkers in the broken media who were hoping for a tighter horse race in November. It's worse news for the Republican / New Confederate / Stupid / Shooter's Party, whose demographic is inexorably dying off and not being replaced by younger voters and whose cynical "rebranding" stunt after their 2012 defeat wasn't bought by their raging, overwhelmingly white constituents, or the "millennials."