Who’s afraid of the Abdul bros?

A populist insurgent is rising in a Democratic primary, outperforming the expectations of pundits and political elites. But the party establishment warns that the insurgent — a straight man — and his political movement carry unsettling sexist overtones. And he even has the nerve to disagree with the Obamas, as close to party royalty as it gets. This would be a fair description of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, which saw Hillary Clinton and the party establishment successfully deploy woke 1.0 tropes against Bernie Sanders and his supporters. But I’m speaking of the party’s current Senate primary in Michigan, where the party establishment is … trying to do the exact same thing. And likewise in several other contests nationwide. A decade ago, Clinton’s allies smeared Bernie Sanders