power. This is because, as the downfall of Jeremy Corbyn has shown, whenever a leftist gets into power in an establishment dominated party, the establishment will pull out every trick in the book to sabotage their efforts for a leftist realignment from within. Throughout his time as leader, the Blairite establishment has pulled out every trick in the book to stop him. The attempted leadership coup in 2016 should have been a golden opportunity for Corbyn to take harsher action against Blairites in the party.

Yet, he stayed his hand, and consequently the Blairites continued to poison the well, sabotaging, with the help of the mainstream media. Every effort he made to move the party leftwards was matched with trumped-up antisemitism charges. They often felt like an attempt tothan engage aggressively against any specific democratic candidate, referred to Joe Biden as a friend, and engaged Biden on cordial terms, even as the DNC sought to undermine his campaign at every turn.

Within his campaign staff, his aides wanted him to take a more aggressive approach;

Two of them suggested he confront Biden head-on during the South Carolina debate, and build up Mike Bloomberg as a potential foil by attacking his stop-and-frisk policies, in order to deflect from the onslaught he would no doubt face as the newly anointed front-runner

However, Bernie largely gave Biden a pass and did not attack Bloomberg on that specific issue. As a result, there was discontent on his campaign team that he did not go for the knockout blow, even as the neoliberal and