Michael Moore Nailed It
Published at 18:25 on 9 November 2016
When he wrote this. Not that it would happen; as I’ve mentioned earlier, he didn’t actually say it would happen. Only that it might. And it did. Pretty much exactly as Moore said it would.
And today when he wrote this. The Republicans had a free-for-all primary. The candidate the talking heads said was unwinnable proved quite winnable, all the way to the White House. The Democrats had a more controlled process, and it wasn’t just controlled: Democratic voters tried to be “responsible,” paid more attention to the bullshit Establishment ideas of electability, and elected… a pro-Establishment dud of a candidate.
Had Bernie prevailed, there’s a very good chance we’d be talking about president-elect Sanders right now.
Postscript. Establishment pundits were wrong about Obama, too. In 2008 they were yammering on about how the “Bradley effect” (named after a successful Los Angeles mayor and failed California gubernatorial candidate) made Obama unelectable and that Hillary was the only responsible choice for Democrats.