Tuesday’s primary victories will allow Hillary Clinton to get busy
planning her “big tent” general election crusade against racism and
incivility, in the person of Donald Trump. It will be a corporate
Democrat’s dream campaign, with the prospect of the party garnering
majority white support for the first time since 1964. Clinton will allow
Bernie Sanders’ delegates to craft much of the language of the party
platform, in Philadelphia – a meaningless exercise designed to convince
the Sandernistas that there is still hope to transform the Democratic
Party “from below.” Clinton – who is permanently primed to lie on any
subject, at any time, in the interests of the Lords of Capital – may
give forked-tongue service to a Sanders-inspired platform, especially if
Trump continues his hype on jobs losses to “China” because of “bad
deals.” But, Wall Street will have little to worry about. Clinton’s
central project will be to build an historic Democratic super-majority
by appealing to all “decent” Americans to reject “bigotry” and embrace
“fairness” and “tolerance” – by which she will mean nothing more than
that they reject Trump.
Such civil rights-sounding rhetoric will signify to Black voters that
their faith in the party, and the Clintons, has been bounteously
rewarded; that the campaign is really all about them. They will be reassured of the continuity of Barack Obama’s policies under Hillary – as if that were a good thing, and as if Obama and the Clintons were not political triplets all along, rooted in the same right-wing of the party.
-- Glen Ford, "Hillary Wants a Crusade to Defeat Trump’s “Bigotry” – and Leave Her Bankers Alone" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).