Some Guy ............... ?!
Hillary MIGHT get Indicted :
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-should-hold-out-1465426160" Bernie Should Hold Out "
" Bernie Sanders has reimagined the Democratic Party. For that, he deserves something big "
By
Daniel Henninger
" There is a reason why Hillary Clinton’s milestone as the U.S.’s first female presidential nominee is having trouble reaching elevation. The reason is that her victory is not the most significant event of the Democratic primaries.
The real claim to Democratic Party history belongs to Bernie Sanders. Sen. Sanders has recentered the Democrats, once and for all, as a party of the political left. He has reimagined the Democrats—almost with the force of his personality—as a party of the state, of government and of redistribution. Period.
Barack Obama himself became a Bernista in his June 1 speech in Elkhart, Ind., when he essentially proposed delinking Social Security’s benefits from any known economic reality.
The party of Franklin Roosevelt through Lyndon Johnson and its alliance with private-sector industrial unions made Democrats aware that their fortunes ultimately were joined to the success of the private sector.
The Democrats are now the party of Bernie Sanders, the progressive icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren and—make no mistake—of Barack Obama, a man of the left from day one. Rather than distrust the private sector, they disdain and even loathe it.
In this milieu, Hillary Clinton was the odd woman out. If she’d had any credibility as an authentic member of the party’s new Sanders-Warren center, she would have overwhelmed this obscure Vermont senator in the Iowa caucuses. Instead, liberals under 40, especially millennials, don’t believe she is one of them.
The policies of John Kennedy and Bill Clinton, now in disrepute, ensured that annual economic growth remained at its postwar average of about 3%. Those Democrats understood the private sector, even if they distrusted it.
That understanding is gone, as proven by the seven-year Obama growth rate between zero and little more than 2%. If Hillary Clinton utters the phrase “corporate tax reform,” she will lose the election. The Sanders wing of the Obama coalition will walk away from her.
In the new Democratic Party, defined by the substance of Sen. Sanders’s campaign, the role of the private sector is to transmit revenue to the public purse. Private business has become an exotic abstraction, like the province of Cappadocia in the Roman empire.
As the Obama presidency made clear, this new relationship is not based on the tax code, which the new Democrats think of as a kind of dumb sump pump. The driver now is legal prosecution or the constant threat of it by government enforcement agencies—Justice, Labor, the NLRB, and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose originator was Elizabeth Warren.
Ralph Nader this week told the Washington Post that Sen. Sanders had broken the taboo on the word “socialism.” Bernie, said Mr. Nader, “has brought the word into the mainstream and made class distinctions central to his campaign.”
But not even Sen. Sanders uses the S-word much, preferring the euphemisms of “income inequality” and “social justice,” which are gentler on American ears. Mrs. Clinton will use most of the Sanders vocabulary.
That said, many activists on the left believe, rightly, that they haven’t gained permanent control of the party. They have its heart and soul, but the Sanders revolution doesn’t yet command the power stations. Effective party power remains with what Sen. Sanders repeatedly calls the “establishment.”
But Bernie has something close to veto power. Sen. Sanders has disconnected Mrs. Clinton from most of the party’s younger voters. They’re listening to him, not her, and maybe not even to Barack Obama anymore. Indeed, one may ask whether the Democratic establishment abhorred by Sen. Sanders’s base now includes Mr. Obama.
All of which makes the scorpion dance over “unifying the party” between Sen. Sanders and bloodless Democratic heavyweights a show not to be missed.
I am reminded of the Corleone family in “The Godfather—II” when Tom Hagen tells Frankie Pentangeli it’s time to go. I see Harry Reid as making the Hagen buyout offer to Bernie.
Tom Hagen: “When a plot against the emperor failed, the plotters were always given a chance to let their families keep their fortunes.
Frankie Pentangeli: “Yeah, but only the rich guys. The little guys got knocked off.”
But Bernie isn’t in Frankie Pentangeli’s bathtub by himself. A whole generation of young Democratic voters—who see Hillary and what she represents as the moribund empire and themselves as the little guys—will be watching the deal the party offers to make Bernie go.
Bernie’s brigades should hold out for more than writing platform boilerplate. If Sen. Sanders forced Hillary to pick Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, it would be the capstone to Bernie’s career. History would record him as someone who decisively shifted the locus of a major American party, rather than just another eccentric candidate who briefly caught fire.
Plus, we’d get the spectacle of Donald Trump battling two women, not least Sen. Warren, progressivism’s central processing unit.
We are all in a five-month skydive, so it might as well be fun. Even for Bernie Sanders. "
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