“...turning on the formerly adorable, 74-year-old senator with rabid ferocity.”
The New York Times knows nothing about old people. As someone of age I can vouch for the fact after a certain point in your life you don’t give a s**t about what others think about you.
For most, all their victories (and failures) are behind them. For Sanders, he is in the spotlight now. He has a chance to get his message (regardless how bad we may think it is) out, something that has eluded him his entire life.
Do they think trying to demonize him now will get him to concede.
If anything, he will just raise his cane and tell the whippersnappers to just shut the hell up and let the grown ups talk.
I personally believe Sanders would be an ineffective President, someone in over his head from the beginning.
But it does my heart good to see someone finally standing in the way of the Clintons.
So go Bernie, feel the Bern, enjoy your time in the spotlight because they will destroy you in the end.
They’ve passed the point at which they can damage Sanders. Sanders in a manner f speaking is a cancer they’ve ignored. At this point he’s too “large” to be removed easily. He’s amassed a considerable number of supporters that will never change and follow Hillary. The violence in LA and turmoil shows his supporters are not only not going to transition, they are going to disrupt.
That means schism to the point of Sanders feeling empowered enough to run as an independent. He generates enthusiasm that Hillary will never see.
Bernie is good at only one thing, running his mouth. There is no way he will give up this opportunity willingly.