The inciting motive, as they sometimes say in theatre class, is that candidate Bernie Sanders might win and threaten the power of the Democratic establishment, which includes the Clintons, the Obamas, Silicon Valley and Wall Street. That’s because Sanders, the protagonist (i.e., central figure, though neither hero nor villain) is a socialist. By his definition, that’s pretty mild: nothing like nationalizing the means of production or the dictatorship of the proletariat. He’s a democratic (or worse, Democratic) socialist, like his model, FDR. When Sanders fails to fade in the early going — he’s behind only Joe Biden in polls, and equal to him in besting Donald Trump — they rally behind Warren.

Source: thestar June 27, 2019 19:07 UTC