You know how sometimes grandpa seems so cute and well-meaning but then somebody gives him a bourbon and asks him about how the neighborhood has changed over the years and he starts in on the really uncomfortable talk about how everything was fine before the Koreans moved in?

That's where Bernie is now.

He's now arguing that the primary process is biased against him and so the super delegates who he had once claimed were all unfairly in the tank for Hillary Clinton should give him the nomination at the convention.

This makes no sense.  By the time of the convention, Clinton will have one more states and more votes in total. How can he argue that the super delegates voting for him is anything but a subversion of the democracy that he claims has been thwarted by his loss?

It's almost as if he believes that democracy means "voting for Bernie."  That is not the kind of socialism we're looking for.  That's a little Castro.

Besides, the least democratic aspects of the Democratic primary (caucuses) have generally given Bernie his wins. Were the system reformed to be more democratic, with easy access to voting booths and quick voting rather than caucus role-playing, Sanders might not have had such a good showing in the first place.

Over at TPM, Josh Marshall really highlights the death throes logic of the Sanders campaign:

Consider a few points: Sanders has in the last three days essentially declared war on the institutional Democratic party, giving it an ultimatum to open up its doors to people who want 'real change'. Fair enough. But his entire stated strategy is to do well enough in the final run of primaries that super-delegates, the embodiment of the institutional party, decide to drop Clinton and switch their allegiance to Sanders.

That makes no sense.

I know some people are worried that Sanders' continued attempts to thwart Clinton will somehow hurt her against The Donald, but I doubt it.  I think he's hurting himself, though, and undermining the good will he's won throughout a good campaign in the process.

I hesitate to say he should drop out.  There are a lot of people (especially in upcoming California) looking forward to voting for him and they should have the right and pleasure. But it's time for him to stop embarrassing himself. He should only stay in if he can campaign with dignity.

The truth is that he tried hard, he played hard and he lost.

I think the Democratic establishment was, in fact, aligned against him.  But that shouldn't be a controversial or surprising point. When you're running as the outsider, you have to kind of expect that, right?  The Republican establishment was also aligned against Trump.  He used that very effectively. But that's because active, grass roots Republicans are angrier at their establishment.

I don't expect Sanders to endorse his opponent while he's still in the race and if he doesn't want to work on her behalf in the aftermath, so be it. But he is embarrassing himself, he's being nonsensical about why he should be the nominee after having objectively lost and he's undermining his core economic and political case.

Sometimes you just want to call grandpa a cab, you know?