I traveled by air for the holiday. The airports, as far as I could tell, were unaffected by the government shutdown. Transportation Security Administration personnel remained on the job.
The only mention I heard of the shutdown was while eating breakfast at a restaurant counter on Christmas Eve. A young man, leisurely forking through plate of food as he stared at his phone, opined to a restaurant worker that it was congress' fault.
The Christmas Eve cable news shows did not focus on the Trump's border wall government shutdown; they focused on the 2020 presidential race. I watched Chuck Todd's MTP Daily.
Like a lot of these shows, it's a round-table format. Journalists (mainstream journalists), an ex-politico, a pollster were led by Todd through a series of questions on current events.
Prevailing insider wisdom appears to be that a Bernie Sanders candidacy is going nowhere; same thing for Elizabeth Warren; and, interestingly, same thing for Joe Biden. Leading the pack, according to Todd and his congregated pundits, are Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke and Sherrod Brown.
Bernie, as in 2016, was ruled out because of his purported unpopularity with blacks. The pollster asserted that Bernie had no chance on Super Tuesday.
You'll recall it was Hillary's commanding performance on Super Tuesday 2016 that kept Mike Bloomberg from entering the race as an independent candidate to protect the nation from a socialist.
I see it differently. The only Democratic candidate who has maintained his supporters is Bernie. He's the only one, besides Elizabeth Warren, who has a national base (Biden, merely name recognition). Kamala Harris might do fine on Super Tuesday, but she won't do as well as Hillary.
The crowded field in the Democratic primary almost guarantees Bernie will come out on top.
The mainstream talking point is that Bernie is passé. Which just goes to show you how completely disconnected mainstream journalism is from the mainstream.
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