I believe in political parties, in unelected, but respected, gray heads (on bodies of whatever sex or color) deciding who may compete to carry the party’s flag. I like the idea of super-delegates. If the GOP had them, they might actually have elected a Republican in 2016 instead of a moron who will give them a temporary sugar high but also a legacy that some of them will never live down. The Republican Party is no more. If Bernie is nominated, the Democratic Party, too, will cease to exist; it will have been taken over by the DSA, with only its name surviving. He’s not a Democrat. Why on earth should the Democratic Party make him their leader?

Warren and Sanders may disagree on the labels attaching to them, but they are alike in one key respect: they are, like Trump, zero-sum politicians. They are about whom they can lock up or cut down so that their constituencies can have more or, failing that, the satisfaction of seeing the Evil Ones have less. They are horrible national figures, because they are not about the most important of national virtues: compromise of political issues to create a growing economic and social pie. There is no zero-sum revolution, only civil war. I will vote for any Democrat over Trump, including the zero-sum abominations, but only for one term. As soon as a plus-sum candidate of either side comes along, that’s where my vote goes.