Joel B. Pollak 1 Mar 2020
It is perhaps no accident that the coronavirus panic only began roiling world markets after Sen. Bernie Sanders emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president after the Nevada caucuses last weekend.
The “democratic socialist†is still the frontrunner, despite former Vice President Joe Biden’s win in South Carolina on Saturday. He is widely viewed as the least likely to defeat President Donald Trump in November’s general election.
There are no alternatives to a Sanders-Biden contest, which Biden may struggle to win. The Mike Bloomberg bubble burst at the Nevada debate, and may not recover if Sanders wins California handily on Super Tuesday.
Sanders’s surge is itself the result of a despair that seized many Democrats after the Iowa debate, when it seemed none of the candidates could beat Trump. If they were to lose anyway, better to vote for a sentimental favorite.
So the rise of Sanders is the result of one kind of panic, and the coronavirus panic is another: the reaction of those who believe the “fake news†and have convinced themselves that President Trump really is incompetent in a crisis.
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