Opinion: The democratic race has forgotten its purpose
What we had feared the most has come to pass. A senile, raving, gaffe-prone dotard has well-nigh won the democratic presidential nomination to run against Trump in November 2020. At the end of a fratricidal race that pitted candidates without major differences in their policy agendas (with the exception of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) against each other, the contestant who was until recently thought to be the least likely to win the nomination has wound up clinching it. Pundits who wrote off Joe Biden after his poor showing in Iowa and New Hampshire can now eat their words. Even more dispiriting is the fact that Biden crushed Bernie Sanders in Michigan to emerge as the clear front-runner. Sanders’s momentum that seemed to be rife after his stellar performance in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada has fizzled out. The fateful Super Tuesday that tipped the scales in Biden’s favour took the momentum away from Sanders. What explains Biden’s appeal? Did the democratic electorate