Yogi Berra has a timely warning for the fractured Democratic party. The baseball legend and accidental oracle is reputed to have said, “It gets late early out here.”
Translation: Democrats better get their act together – rallying behind a candidate who can actually beat Donald Donald – and doing it sooner rather than later, lest they tear themselves apart in a marathon slog to the mid-summer national convention.
The results Tuesday night in New Hampshire make that task more urgent than ever. If Democrats fail to coalesce behind someone with moderate crossover appeal, they’re going to be stuck with Bernie Sanders – the GOP’s dream opponent, for reasons that are obvious to everyone except his zealots.
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