The General Election Starts Today

Three states held a primary yesterday. Joe Biden consolidated his lead in the delegate count. It is all but over. Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee. The math makes it all but impossible for Senator Bernie Sanders to find a path to victory. It is time to admit the inevitable and suspect the campaign. This is for the good of the nation.

This will lead to a unity movement, which most Democrats and independents will follow. There are also Republicans who will vote for Joe Biden in November.

There are signals that Sanders is clearly moving in this direction. For starters, he is no longer asking for donations and has suspended all Facebook ads. This points to a suspension, which reporters believed he had already done. His communications director, Mike Casca, denied this in a tweet. However, the time is near.

He does have an extremely committed base, some of whom will never vote for a Neoliberal Democrat. They have made this clear, and have even threatened to leave the Democratic Party. This is fine. None should beg them.

Here is the thing. A small, but very vocal minority of Sanders fans are part of a personality cult, who refuse to see the writing on the wall. They also are sure that the movement that Sanders has built cannot go forwards without the Senator. The United States has always had some of this. In fact, some of the president’s fans act the same exact way as hardcore Trump voters. To them, I say, it is time to reassess this. The ideas are now part of the conversation…