BERNIE DOES LA-LA – AT 1:41 P.M. ET:  Bernie Sanders, in keeping with socialist tradition, hit the cocktail circuit in Los Angeles, appealing to die-hard "progressives" in their substantial, yet sensitive homes.  From Hollywood Reporter:

With the dust still settling after Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s glitzy fundraising trips to Hollywood this week, Clinton’s first official Democratic rival — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders — slipped quietly into town Saturday for a pair of low-key events that didn’t raise seven-figure sums, but did warm the hearts of two overflowing crowds of Hollywood progressives.

Sanders’s supporters might be called the entertainment industry’s irreconcilables — the left flank of the Hollywood Dems’ most progressive faction, with activists deeply disappointed in Obama, who they supported, and unwilling to sign on to a Clinton presidential campaign. In the former Secretary of State, they see another moderate waiting to happen.

Early Saturday morning, they filled the already blazing frontyard of actress Mimi Kennedy’s Van Nuys home and — at midday — the living room of long-time activists Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum’s sprawling Brentwood Park mansion to hear the program of a candidate they see as everything Hillary is not.

“I’m here with my wife and my friends because we believe Bernie is providing us with the opportunity to have a voice and a role in the Democratic process at a time when progressives are on the rise,” said former California state Senator Tom Hayden, who introduced Sanders at the Van Nuys event.

COMMENT:  The left has convinced itself that it's "on the rise."  It is not.  But they always think they're on the rise.  The revolution is just around the corner.  The workers are in the streets.  Bernie is in our living rooms.

I mean, Tom Hayden?  I thought he was in a wax museum.  Remember, he was married to Jane Fonda in the age of sail.

One thing about Bernie, though – he believes what he says, and has real principles.  For that I admire him.

June 21, 2015