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The Liberal Media Has Lost Its Mind
The Nevada caucuses for the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee were held this past weekend and Bernie Sanders won a resounding victory, besting his second place finisher Joe Biden, by more than 20 percentage points. The win sent shock waves through mainstream media as the punditry class was unable to comprehend why Bernie Sanders won by such a large margin. The mainstream media’s inability to understand the appeal of the Sanders campaign is tantamount to the establishment’s inability to understand the concerns of the electorate.
The day before the Nevada caucuses, a story was reported by the Washington Post that US Intel officials had informed the Sanders campaign that Russia was attempting to help his election campaign. After telling Russia to stay out of our elections, Sanders then replied with the tweet that was heard round the world (or at least the twitter-sphere).
To say that this tweet, along with Sanders’s overwhelming victory in Nevada, elicited a strong reaction from the mainstream media would be a gross understatement. Both pundits and those opposed to the Sanders campaign (differences that don’t bare much of a distinction these days) proceeded to lose their mind. The peak of…
