I thought this was a fascinating and well balanced piece produced by Andrew O'Hehir over at Salon Magazine.

Stop laughing, Democrats! As the GOP goes down in flames, your post-Bernie civil war is almost here

In it, the author encourages us to stop laughing at the Republican clown car and consider carefully the state of the Democratic party.

So the Republican Party has finally turned against Donald Trump, the monster it created, in an excess of self-righteous hypocrisy. It’s a classic case of what historian Ian Kershaw once described as “the sinking ship leaving the rat.” Anytime you trot out Mitt Romney to accuse someone else — literally anyone else — of being a fraud and a phony who is trying to play the American people for suckers, you have officially triggered on the Historical Irony alarm. But here’s what I have to say to gleeful Democrats, eagerly looking forward to a November massacre: Laugh, fools, laugh! Because the crazy is coming for you too. When you look in the bathroom mirror, what’s that mad glint in your eye? I know it’s hard to see, because someone has written REDRUM across the mirror in lipstick over and over again, and the writing looks familiar somehow.

I suspect many of us here already see this quite clearly. I've often been dismayed at how readily GOS laughs at the Republicans and fails to see their own party in the self-same mirror. This author takes it as a near certainty that Hillary will win the nomination although to his credit he also acknowledges that this has been a year of surprises and so being wrong is more the order of the day than an anomaly. That's a point I've never disagreed with. Bernie's (and our) battle was always a long, long shot as all David vs. Goliath contests are. And I cannot say I'm surprised by how unanimously every single organ of the establishment has worked tirelessly to stop him. Had that not happened, I'd have to be wondering what I'd gotten wrong.

Indeed, the most striking aspect of the Sanders phenomenon is that he came as close as he did, given how poorly suited he was for the role. Let me say it again: Bernie Sanders was never the solution, and Hillary Clinton, much as she has done to earn the ire and mistrust of critics on the left, was never the problem. They are both symptoms or symbols, and in the short run the outcome of their symbolic collision was not in doubt. But the long run, and the collision between the forces behind Clinton and Sanders — that’s an entirely different matter.

The challenge he lays before us (the left) is whether we have what it takes to make the revolution happen... to elect county clerks and dog catchers and other Berniecrats starting at the bottom and working at every single level... to do what the Tea Party did in short. If we don't, if it all depends on Bernie in his own person, then we never had a chance.

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