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Or not. After the crossroad in Philadelphia, we'll know.by Gaius Publius"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."–Longfellow, paraphrasing any number of Greek poetsIt seems that what I worried about here — "Will Clinton Attempt to Bring Sanders Supporters into the Democratic Fold?" — will happen, and not in a good way. Hillary Clinton is done with Sanders voters, the Party is done with Sanders voters, and that's that.

The above is a real fake ad — it's a fake Air France ad that really showed up in Parisian ad spaces during the recent climate conference. "Care about climate change? Of course not. We're Air France. If we cared we'd stop flying planes.

Gas bubbles collect on the inside surface of a glass, and when they grow large enough, rise up (source)by Gaius PubliusI've been using two metaphors to describe the movement around the Bernie Sanders campaign. One is the grain of sand in the oyster that allows the pearl material, always present, to coalesce, come together. The sand didn't create the pearl. It just "occasioned" it.

Writer Shaun Kingby Gaius PubliusI'm looking ahead to the next stages of this unfolding drama, and setting up another installment in that series (Look Ahead part one here, Look Ahead part two here).

Clinton wants to bring her husband "out of retirement."by Gaius PubliusThe two topics in the headline are related. We're in the next phase of the campaign, with an uncontested candidate in the Republican Party (who knew that would happen first?) and a still-contested race on the Democratic side.

Purchase a Democrat? I'll have to ask my friends how that works out (source; click to enlarge).by Gaius PubliusAll in the spirit of fun.

Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse playing the "come to me, bend to me" game on a Hollywood stage (source). The version on the political stage looks a little different.

Cenk Uygur explains what everyone knows but no one like Chris Cuomo can say out loud. "Of course she's corrupt. They're all corrupt because the system is corrupt." (Note: Cenk is way too kind to Cuomo in this clip, who's not that dumb. He's just well paid to appear so.)   by Gaius PubliusAccording to Politico, of the $60 million raised by and for the Hillary Victory Fund, a PAC jointly controlled by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, less than 1% of the money raised ended up benefiting state Democratic parties.Why does this matter?

Clinton to Sanders: "No, you come to me." Can you read that headline any other way?by Gaius Publius Something to keep your eye on in the lead-up to post-East Coast voting, and something that could well affect the voting after that.

.@JoeNBC on @BernieSanders campaign: That campaign's not over. That campaign continues. https://t.co/eyUCCYbFxb— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) April 27, 2016