{"id":9541,"date":"2020-04-17T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9541"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:48:21","slug":"9541","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=9541","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/04\/17\/bernie-sanders-tests-the-limits-of-the-us-political-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Harris, CounterPunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sanders arguably could have beaten Trump but not the DNC. Or to turn that around, had the DNC not sandbagged him, Sanders surely would have beaten his Democratic rivals and gone on to defeat the incumbent president\u2026if what passes for the \u201cliberal\u201d establishment (e.g., the Pelosi and Schumer) didn\u2019t sabotage him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>It should be crystal clear, now, that what you saw is what you got: a sincere New Deal liberal wedded to the Democratic Party, not a leftist superhero. He shouldn\u2019t be blamed for being someone he was not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party is an instrument of class rule and not a democratic institution.<\/p>\n<p>For all his remarkable accomplishments, Sanders\u2019 legacy in 2020 will likely be that of 2016, which was to be the sheepdog that herded progressives into the Democratic Party and got nothing in return.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Harris, CounterPunch: Sanders arguably could have beaten Trump but not the DNC. Or to turn that around, had the DNC not sandbagged him, Sanders surely would have beaten his Democratic rivals and gone on to defeat the incumbent president\u2026if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=9541\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}