The Trap: And They Fall for it Again

If you have spent any time on social media, you have seen it. There is a split between Bernie Sanders supporters and Elizabeth Warren supporters. It is as if this could have been predicted, or something. But here are the cliffs notes: Something was said at a meeting between the two of them. Somebody leaked something to try to paint one of them as a misogynist, and partisans for both sides are at each other throats.

In the meantime, the centrist in the party, though their own spokespeople in the media are magnifying what should remain a personal matter into a big rift. Again, I could have called this. Why? The split between the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and the centrist wing is deep.

There is more, the centrists are very good at manipulating the at times paranoid progressives. We saw this exact pattern in 2016. Full disclosure, I had a first-row seat to this dynamic, since I was a member of a centrist site. So the tactics are very familiar.

What we are seeing through are progressives taking the bait, the hook, the sinker, and the fishing rod. In fact, they have swallowed this all the way to the elbow, or worst. And it is not like we have not seen this movie before. The reality is that there is a very real war for the future of the Democratic Party, and the centrist wing is far better organized, and less paranoid, than progressives. Partly it is a function of who has held the reins of the party for over a generation. They took over in 1980, and have not let go. Clintonism is still…