This is Trump's nightmare.
I'm writing minutes after the victory of the Bernie Sanders of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Everyone calls him, "AMLO." This is actually AMLO's re-election: He first won the presidency in 2006. But back then the thieving, scheming, blood-stained criminal gang that rules Mexico (and I'm being polite), declared AMLO's dissolute opponent the winner.
In 2006, rather than concede to vote thievery, lick his wounds and toddle off on a book tour, AMLO took his supporters into the streets, raised hell, blocked the capital's central square for months, held a People's Inaugural, and vowed to never, ever concede.
And tonight, twelve years later, AMLO has won a crushing, too-big-to-steal victory in Mexico's presidential election.
And while the Good and Great told him he'd be finished if he kept protesting the stolen election, he made counting every vote the very first of his five-point campaign platform. He understands that even those with empty stomachs also hunger for democracy.
And there's a lesson here. Are you listening, Al Gore? Mr. Kerry and Mrs. Clinton?
Bernie or Hugo?
And AMLO gave the people something to vote for. The rest of his platform included expanding free college education, raising the minimum wage, fighting income inequality and creating a massive infrastructure-fixing jobs program.
If that sounds like Bernie Sanders, that's no accident. AMLO, like Bernie, said he is taking his program from that great Mexican hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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