Whatever happened to unwavering principle?

Wasn’t one of Bernie Sanders’ virtues his rock-solid unwavering consistency on everything? Ummm...

Before:

“If I win a state with 70 percent of the vote, you know what? I think I am entitled to those superdelegates,” Mr. Sanders said. “I think the superdelegates should reflect what the people of the state want, and that’s true for Hillary Clinton as well.”

After:

[Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver:] We can argue about the merits of having superdelegates, but we do have them. And if their role is just to rubber-stamp the pledged delegate count, then they really aren’t needed, right? So they’re supposed to exercise independent judgment about who they think can lead the party forward to victory.

And of course, this came after months and months of attacking the superdelegates as undemocratic tools of the establishment. And you know what? I agreed with that shit, just like I agreed with it when I made those same arguments in 2008.

But aside from the rank hypocrisy, it really is funny seeing the Sanders campaign pretend they have a shot at the superdelegates, even as the party stares in horror at what a bitter conspiracy-mongering crank Bernie Sanders has become. Not to mention undemocratic. Whether it’s garnering unearned delegates in Nevada or discarding the will of the primary electorate, who needs democracy when a revolution can trump the will of the people? Utterly indefensible.

The system was stacked against Sanders? Of course it was. That’s what it means to be an insurgent outsider. Does that make it unbeatable? Of course not. Just ask Barack Obama. Or Donald Trump.