DAVID MARCUS: Sorry Stephen A. Smith, Democrats don’t let outsiders win their primaries

In his decades covering sports, Stephen A. Smith has seen a batch of cheating and soiled tricks, but it’s thing compared to what he'd look successful a longshot bid for the Democratic information for president. 

Those who tally the nation’s oldest governmental enactment volition not conscionable manus Smith the car keys. In fact, they volition bash everything they tin to destruct his nascent governmental career, adjacent if that means destroying him.

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On Sunday, Smith appeared connected ABC’s "This Week," aft confirming past week that helium is not ruling retired a tally astatine the highest bureau successful the land. And aft all, you mightiness say, if a personage similar Donald Trump tin find himself residing astatine 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., past wherefore not Stephen A. Smith?

The reply to that question is that Democrats are not Republicans. 

Just inquire Robert F Kennedy, Jr., who Democrats denied immoderate accidental to situation Joe Biden successful the 2024 primary, and who present works for Trump.

Hillary Clinton defeated Senator Bernie Sanders successful the 2016 primary, with an assistance from enactment leaders.

The enactment didn’t conscionable effort to decision RFK Jr., they sought to humiliate and marginalize him. Smith should instrumentality heed.

Democrats bash not spell with the blistery manus conscionable to win. If they did, Bernie Sanders would've been their nominee successful 2016, not Hillary Clinton. And they proved it again astatine Sanders' disbursal successful 2020, erstwhile they pushed him speech for Joe Biden. Democrats privation idiosyncratic from their club, oregon astatine slightest idiosyncratic they tin control.

Stephen A. Smith is neither.

To beryllium sure, determination is simply a precise affirmative lawsuit to beryllium made for Smith arsenic the Democratic Party wanders done the governmental wilderness, shivering successful the agelong acold shadiness of Biden’s incompetence and decrepitude.

Smith is evidently a talented communicator, and much than that, helium appeals to the Achilles bottommost of the party, working-class men. He besides appears much oregon little immune to wacky woke ideas similar men playing successful women’s sports.

Stephen A. Smith is considering a tally for president. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

Smith has an undeniable everyman appeal. After all, astir by explanation a sports expert is the feline you privation to person a brew with, and adjacent successful that world, Smith balances the brutishness of athletics with high-mindedness and impeccable style.

His wildly palmy vocation successful the assertive and high-stakes satellite of sports media is an plus for Smith. Before voters tin hold with what a person has to say, they person to privation to perceive what they person to say. Smith knows however to get attention.

But earlier we commencement designing the afloat lit hoops tribunal successful the Rose Garden, it is worthy considering the extended tools that the Democrats’ elite person to thwart Smith, a acceptable of tools that, had they had them, Republicans would person utilized to kneecap Trump successful 2016.

First of all, superdelegates, which is to accidental unelected enactment insiders who formed ballots for the nominee astatine the enactment convention, play a vastly bigger relation successful the Democrats’ superior process than successful the GOP’s. Added to this, fixed the dominance of Democrats successful our large municipality areas, section Democratic Party machines play an outsized role. 

It was Rep. James Clyburn’s get-out-the-vote effort successful South Carolina cities that propelled Biden to his 2020 win, adjacent though conscionable a week earlier his candidacy had looked dormant arsenic a doornail.

The enactment elders prime the candidates, whether the voters similar it oregon not. Let’s not hide that conscionable 5 months agone Kamala Harris ran for president, having ne'er won a primary. Does it truly substance however galore votes Smith tin get successful a enactment that anoints nominees cipher voted for?

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In 2016, Donald Trump didn’t truthful overmuch triumph the Republican information for president arsenic helium did instrumentality implicit the GOP, fundamentally transforming it successful ways we are inactive seeing play retired with young and working-class voters, and with tariffs and bid deals.

To go president, Stephen A. Smith would person to likewise. It wouldn't beryllium capable to simply get the astir votes for the Democratic nomination. He would person to fundamentally alteration the enactment itself, and the powerfulness structures wrong it, similar Trump did.

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As talented arsenic Smith is, changing the Democratic Party is apt excessively gangly an bid for anyone. It is simply a instrumentality designed to minimize elector impact. 

If Smith truly wants to beryllium president someday, he’d astir apt person a amended accidental moving arsenic a Republican. But that is simply a file for different day.

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