The Sandernistas' last hurrah in Philadelphia

WHATEVER smug feelings Hillary Clinton and her team enjoyed over the gaffe-strewn Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week died quickly, on July 25th, in Philadelphia. The Democratic Party, which is holding its convention there for four days, ending on July 28th, has serious problems of its own.Most obvious is the refusal of a raucous minority of Democrats to accept Mrs Clinton as their nominee. Philly has already seen protests far bigger than anything witnessed in Cleveland; the police said they expected as many as 50,000 protesters in all. On a sweltering first day, marked by thunder claps and torrential rain, packs of disgruntled supporters of Mrs Clinton's beaten rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, traipsed through Philadelphia, alongside anti-capitalists, anarchists, and a group of pro-cannabis campaigners parading a 30-foot-long inflatable spliff.'Fuck the DNC! We'll never bend the knee!' chanted a group of Sandernistas. They were maddened by revelations, detailed in e-mails published by WikiLeaks on July 24th, that some officers of the Democratic National Committee had displayed a naked preference for...Continue reading
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