Should Hillary quit?

Trumpists and Sandersites are pressuring her to quit, leaning hard on the worsening email issue though Bernie used to pretend he would never go there.

If she quits there's at least a 99% chance it will be Bernie and not Joe Biden, the non-candidate who was always, politically, Hillary without the baggage and whose reasons to demur from the beginning must have included that it seemed, to so many Democrats, mostly women, that in a choice between two pols with such similar agendas and views it had to be, finally, the Year of the Woman.

Recall that, at the beginning of the primary season and more than once since, Hillary's surrogates and allies have hit Bernie as insensitive toward women and sometimes as sexist and misogynist, outright.

That was as nothing compared to what their fury toward Joe Biden would have been.

It is unimaginable that anyone would put Joe in against Hillary so late in the process, and almost inconceivable anyone would put him in against Bernie if she withdrew.

And why would he accept either role?

If Hillary is forced to withdraw, before or after the convention, the Democrats' best shot will be to unite behind Bernie.

And Il Duce and the entire American right will get such a boost of campaign joy as we have not seen, on their side, for over a year.

On the other hand, the undeniable fact is that most Democrats are not remotely socialists and do not want to be led by socialists, or anybody whose attitude toward American capitalism is that fundamentally hostile.

The talk is out there.

The email thing is really quite bad.

If she really did withdraw over this the Dems would almost certainly lose the election, especially if they tried to play an old, white, male-but-clean version of Hillary against Bernie for the nomination.

Trying to fob off Hillary's Year of the Woman supporters by adding the ideologically wholly inappropriate Elizabeth Warren to a Joe Biden ticket is not going to cut it with the girls, and certainly would do nothing to sufficiently diminish the fury of the Bernie people.