Why ‘Stop Sanders’?
By Kevin D. Williamson
April 17, 2019 6:30 AM
Clever Democrats worry that the gentleman from Vermont won’t be able to defeat Trump in 2020.
‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?†T. S. Eliot asked. “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?â€
And where is the intelligence we have lost in cleverness?
Cleverness is the plague of our political classes, an influenza of the intellect. The consultants are always trying to outsmart their rivals in the pettiest of ways and generally end up outsmarting themselves. The Affordable Care Act was and is a legislative and administrative train wreck, but it sure sounded clever (to someone) to be able to say it was a “Republican plan,†a “conservative proposal,†a creature of Mitt Romney or the American Enterprise Institute, etc. Never mind that that isn’t exactly true — it sure sounded clever!
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-concerns-2020-campaign/
