By: Corey Savard
Last night’s Super Tuesday results were expected. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the support of Democrats in the the southern states (Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Arkansas), states in which she carried the African-American vote, but victories that have zero credibility in a general election because they will most certainly support a Trump Republican ticket, based on voter turnout.
While Clinton supporters and the establishment media revel in what they see as a clear path to the White House in November, was given a crushing ‘bern’ in Minnesota, Colorado, and Oklahoma, states that are much more indicative of voting trends across the country. Adding fuel to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ political revolution is the shockingly close primary in Massachusetts, a hotbed of establishment Democrats, where Clinton won by a mere 1.4% and reminiscent of her widely perceived failure in the Iowa Caucus by winning with .3%.
However, Sanders was unable to to establish a strong hold in New England, which makes the next “Super” Tuesday on Mar. 15, the day Clinton’s campaign might very well unravel. If Sanders’ Millennial supporters turnout in Illinois, Ohio, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and especially if he wins the Michigan primary on Mar. 8, he will dig a stronghold in the delegate rich Midwest.
The Midwest is the manufacturing heart of the nation’s economy and one of the hardest hit by the 2008 Recession. It’s also home to many blue-collar union members which have been the biggest financial contributors to Sanders’ campaign and leery of Wall Street money in politics, which epitomizes 21st century Clintons.
This is a battle for the soul of American liberalism. Republicans are dealing with their own fight against the highjacking of the GOO by the radical outsider Donald Trump touting totalitarianism, but he’s a monster of their own creation, a consequence of the conservative establishment’s pushing of a national agenda based in fear and racism.
The situation for the Democratic party is similar, an outsider looking to bring dramatic change that taps into the collective concerns of Americans with a platform advocating for Free tuition for post-secondary education, universal healthcare, and a $15 minimum wage that are polling favourably nationwide. The Vermont senator is forcing Clinton to realign her pragmatic policies further to the left, but it will not be enough to overshadow the lifelong progressive Sanders. A candidate that has been completely transparent, while Clinton refuses to release the transcripts speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs.
The divide in the Democratic party is just as alarming as the one across the aisle because failure by the establishment and progressivism will lead to a Donald J. Trump presidency. Clinton is not capturing the imagination of working class Americans like Sanders and Trump are continuing to do, and the superdelegates backing Clinton must come to the realization that Sanders supporters will not sell out their conscience to turn out at the polls for her in the general election.
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