If the argument between Hill and Bern is between pragmatism and idealism as well as between a less and a more lefty version of progressivism, Bern has already won that argument among people whose votes are actually cast between them on that issue.
But Hillary's firewall in South Carolina and onward can stop Bernie and give her the nomination because of her dominance among black voters whom everyone expects to support her, not as a principled choice between those two approaches to liberal politics, but solely out of blind loyalty to the brand, to the wife of Bill Clinton, "the nation's first black president."
If that's how she beats Bernie it will decide nothing and prove nothing except that Donald Trump isn't the only winner relying on the idiot vote.
That's right, I just said it.
The Democrat whose support is most like Trump's is not Bernie but Hill.
White Democrats are voting on their issues, agendas, and approaches to progressive politics.
Blacks are expected not to do that, but to vote out of an irrational loyalty that even black commentators find barely explicable and quite misplaced.
What an odd world.
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