Buy The Ticket-Take The Ride-The Trials And Tribulations Of Scoping The 2020 Democratic Party Nomination-Part  

By Allan Jackson

As long as I have been in politics, interested in politics which is a very long time now it never fails to hit me on the impeachment process (Fall 2019) of one Donald J. Trump, POSTUS who by any standard of decency or hygiene should have been shown the door a long time ago. But the rages against the night over that one are not what has me exercised today. Especially since once the process gets to the Senate floor it is given the actual political configuration dead on arrival, DOA, in every sense of that expression. No what has me exercised in light of the political reality of the day is how the issue of impeachment and acquittal will lay out to Trump’s unearned advantage. More pressingly how it will affect the configuration going into 2020. This after having recently spent an afternoon in the wiles of New Hampshire stirring up the pot for Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont who at this point (unlike a couple of months ago) has a track to the Democratic Party nomination if things work out for him early in places like Iowa and New Hampshire.  

From what I can gather after one afternoon (and some other time not in New Hampshire but courtesy of modern technology calling voters in the state from home) is that impeachment business among the somewhat culled working lists is more a spectacle for the pros than a living, breathing concern of those out in the hinterland. But that could cut both ways. As far as I know every Democratic presidential candidate has come out one way or another for impeachment, including Senator Sanders, so that will color politics going forward if not now then come fall general election time. That is probably all that subject is worth at this time but stay tuned.

What is really intriguing is the play in New Hampshire and nationally this fall as candidates jockey for position. I am the first to admit that in early October I thought Senator Sander’s chances due to health and a trend toward other candidates, particularly the rising star of Senator Elizabeth Warren as former Vice President Joseph Biden’s star was fading was at best stalled. Since then with his recovery and with a crucial endorsement and major rally in Queens with rising super-star AOC things have turned somewhat, turned for the better. Strangely, if thankfully, during that period the Senator Warren star has fallen somewhat. Fallen mainly over fudging the issues around Medicare for All but in general not convincing people that she will not, or would not, cave in to muddled maybe someday pie in the sky medical care issues favored by the Democratic Party establishment. Perhaps the biggest if most expensive political lesson she has had to learn in her short political career.     

It really comes down to the question of trust, and maybe time too. Senator Sanders has been touting his social and political agenda for the past forty years-and people have finally caught up to him. He did not cut corners when he was virtually alone out in the wilderness and he has not now when he has a whole freaking movement at his back to raise holy hell. Yeah, it comes down to trust, a commodity in short supply in the political universe these days. That and a certain amount of undefinable courage to fight the fight against the greed-heads, the con men, the ever present bag men and the corner cutters. That is the sense that I get talking to people in the hills of old New Hampshire about Senator Sanders whether they support him or not. You can hardly get anybody to disagree that he will not fight like seven dervishes once he hits the White House running. Forward to victory in the New Hampshire come February 11, 2020.