Technocrat multibillionaire Michael Bloomberg is the Republican now trying to buy the Democratic presidential nomination and use establishment media elites to throttle Bernie Sanders.

And the other evening he took a serious beating at the Democratic presidential debate in Nevada.

Bloomberg was knocked right out of his shoes. He never recovered. He must have been thinking, "I just spent $400 million for this? I should've been a farmer."

It was Sen. Elizabeth Warren who delivered the punch. One big right hand and all that remained were Bloomberg's empty little loafers on the floor.

"I'd like to talk about who we're running against: a billionaire who calls women 'fat broads' and 'horse-faced lesbians,'" said Warren. "And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Michael Bloomberg."

There was no recovering from it. He tried to shrug off his old comments as "jokes." The audience groaned.

The WrestleMania theatrics of the Democratic debate were entertaining. But it distracts from a fundamental and inconvenient truth facing the pro-Bloomberg Democratic establishment and its media allies.

They've spent the last three years stoking voters in a frenzy to hate that orange Republican whom they describe as an autocrat who threatens the Constitution.

But who does the Democratic establishment choose as champion? Another autocrat who says the Constitution is outdated.

There are so many Bloomberg quotes out there beyond "horse-faced lesbians" that should be of concern. Bloomberg thinks that taxing the poor is the best means to bend them to his will. He looks down his nose at the little people, at farmers and factory workers, and has said that the Constitution is just too "old-fashioned" for his tastes.

His slogan is "Mike Will Get It Done." But what will he do with federal power? He doesn't say.

This isn't about inspiring voters. This is the wedding song of Big Corporate and Big Government, the song Hillary Clinton once sang to Wall Street. And Bloomberg is Wall Street.

Whether Bloomberg would make an effective president or not isn't the issue here. You need to win elections first. And I see a serious flaw in establishment Democrat strategy. I could be wrong.

But I'm not wrong about Bloomberg's lack of appeal, as Sanders keeps exciting the base. The young see Sanders as authentic and Bloomberg as bloodless. Can Bloomberg fill stadiums of people who love him? If he pays them enough.

The common wisdom is that the Democratic debate was such a wild bar fight that the winner was President Trump. But Trump didn't win. Sanders won. He's the front-runner. His voters are the passionate base of the Democratic Party now.

If this trend continues, the only way Democratic Party bosses can stop Sanders is to rig the Democratic National Convention against him and use their trusty superdelegates to deny Sanders the nomination.

But what would the bosses win if they stabbed Sanders this way in two successive elections?

Not the presidency.

Bloomberg forgets he's in a Democratic primary. Democrats are woke warriors, a party that rolls left along that Intersectionality Highway in their quest for power, and New York Times columnists -- including Thomas Friedman, whose wife's museum is the beneficiary of Bloomberg's grand philanthropy -- weren't up on the debate stage to defend him. And Bloomberg couldn't defend himself. His wisecracks about "fat broads" won't be tolerated among the woke left that threatens his ambitions.

So how does the establishment media save him now? Voters were looking for strength, quick wits and courage from Bloomberg, but didn't find it in Nevada. Bloomberg can dip into his pocket change tomorrow and find a quick half-billion dollars to spend on political commercials, and perhaps by sheer force of his wealth, he might drive his dismal debate performance from voters' minds.

The Democratic establishment banked on the Trump impeachment destroying his popularity. They banked on Biden to save them. The impeachment backfired, as did the Russia collusion fantasy, and Trump's numbers keep climbing.

And Biden? The longer he talks, the older he looks, and you start noticing odd things about him, the way his mouth works and that ear hair that wasn't trimmed.

Sanders is no corporatist. He's a leftist and I disagree with most all his policies. In the debate, Bloomberg used the "C" word against Sanders, "Communist," a clip that will be used in Trump ads.

Though I believe Sanders is wrong on policy, his politics are effective because he's tapped into something. Democrat Andrew Yang understood it early, and though Yang dropped out of the race, it speaks to the Bloomberg flaw in Democratic strategy.

America and the world are preparing for great change that will make the social upheaval caused by the Industrial Revolution seem quaint and small, like children playing with old tin soldiers.

We'll see more automation, robots, AI, driverless cars and trucks, and the new lords, the great technocrats, will push the skilled and the unskilled into economic exile.

It will be massive. People feel it now, already, especially young people. Just ask them. And if they're not afraid, exactly, of the Technocratic Lords, they're worried about their place in that world. Human beings vote their anxiety, as the time of the Technocrats advances upon them.

And so, who does the Democratic establishment and establishment media handmaidens prop up as their champion to save them from Sanders?

The Lord High Technocrat himself. The autocrat. Bloomberg.

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