InvincibleBrianMan
Vital 1st Team Regular
Possibly, but I have seen Facebook memes (one in particular from a Labour voting nurse of my acquaintance) asking us to stand behind Bojo as he needs our support in this crisis, blah, blah, vomit??!!!The analyses that I have read has suggested that Democrats are going 'normal'. As in, they are counting on Americans wanting to vote for someone who is just a normal president after the insanity of the last four years.
Say what you like about Bernie, but he is much more radical than any normal candidate and only looks reasonable in comparison to Trump. If Bernie was up against a "normal" presidential candidate then Americans would usually be expected to run a mile. He's up against Biden and they are.
Against Trump he looks much more reasonable but the fear is that if Americans are presented with two candidates way outside the box they'll stick with the whacko they know.
Lots of problems with Biden; not least a fairly frequent suggestion that he may be in the early stages of dementia. But then again, catch Bernie in the wrong interview (and the wrong colour) and you worry how many more beats his heart has got.
What this whole thing has hopefully done is make the idea of insurance led healthcare dead in the water for any country currently running single payer (IE Brexit Britain)
I think that is the same wartime spirit that is swinging behind Trump in the states.
I don't think Saunders's policies are at all radical either when viewed across the Atlantic (or across lake Ontario in my case) and you only have to look at his compromising over, and supporting of the Schumer "bail out" bill that has just passed to see that he is at heart a member of the Democratic party leadership. He is backing his old classmate when there were far superior options that he could have been pressing for.
I can see a wave of belt tightening and "enforced" sell-offs coming after this crisis (that's the way disaster capitalism works) hope there is a post WW2 type swing to the left after all this based on realizations of shared interdependence and communal suffering. But I suspect vested interests will conspire to swing it the other way and we will see Bojo presenting the deeds to the NHS to King Don at his next Coronation ceremony at the new White House / Presidential palace at Mar-a-Largo, Florida.