Sanders lands hard and abruptly. Cisneros and Sloan down. Still got Anthony Clark in Illinois and Marie Newman beating Lipinski would be swell.

One thing to be happy about is Bloomberg flaming out. Having the truism "you can't buy a presidential election" be tested to that extreme degree is sort of gratifying, and I don't spend a lot of time being proud of American voters but rejecting Bloomberg is one of those moments.

Momentarily good is that California is so rich in delegates that Sanders holding on there will make this bad night just part of a larger, weirder race. But that means winning some actual elections against this kind of impressive liberal consolidation, and that's a ton to fight against: different appeal by some strong candidates now backing Biden, cable news*, and the old chestnut that liberals hate socialism as much as they hate fascism.

People are going to tell us to give up. Don't give them anything. Any durable left movement in the United States is about recognizing the material demands of poor and working American people, and putting those aside because you're scared of Donald Trump or of being yelled at by people who are scared of Donald Trump isn't going to get anything useful done. When Biden talks about his long track record of getting things done in DC, he's talking about getting things done for credit card companies, student loan providers, pharmaceutical companies, and NatSec ghouls. If that isn't the world you want to live in, don't concede to live in a bad one because there's an election in eight months. Make him work for it. The same coalition building that everybody demanded of Sanders - now demand it of Biden. Or force him to say "I can win without the left." They're going to blame us when he loses anyhow, so you may as well extract something from it.

*which isn't a complaint about fairness, but they worked the hell out of turning Biden's expected win in South Carolina into a grand redemption story and he didn't have to pay a dime for it or make a single speech on behalf of himself to do it. Nobody's doing that for Sanders because when you're fighting to move something giant and heavy, gravity isn't on your side.