Uh-oh. MSNBC has noticed that the Democrat party is a complete train wreck

It was supposed to be the GOP. The Republicans were supposed to tear themselves apart thanks to a brutal primary, an unpopular candidate the base wouldn't support, disorganization, and intra-party strife. It's still not impossible. There's a long time between now and the convention, so I suppose it could still happen. However, with each passing day, it looks like things are settling down on the right side of the election. Across the aisle, however, chaos reigns.

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The presumptive Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton, can't seem to win a primary. She's widely despised within her own party and those who support her challenger feel like the whole thing is rigged in Hillary's favor. As a result, the fight is on - and everything that was supposed to happen to the Grand Old Party is now happening to the Dems. And MSNBC has noticed. Listen to Rachel Maddow as she describes the "ugly, ugly" battle between the Democrat establishment and the crackpots who support Bernie Sanders: As Maddow says, "We're used to focusing on discord, discontent, and division on the Republican side of the presidential race, but - judging by what happened in Las Vegas this weekend - I have to wonder if it's not the Democrats who right now need to be more concerned." I'd say that represents a moment of clarity for Maddow, but I'm still not convinced she's capable of having one. The point is that the Bernie/Hillary rift appears to be widening and deepening, just when their party needs to heal itself. As we've speculated in the past, it's looking like Bernie isn't going to go away quietly. ...Or anytime soon.

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Because Bernie truly believes the nonsense he spews, he's more than willing to plunge the DNC convention into chaos and leave the party with a battered, damaged, candidate. As MSNBC's Chris Jansing reports, his campaign manager isn't afraid to admit that, either...

"I was just talking to Jeff Weaver last night, and in his most pointed language, he said to me, "Look, we need 25 percent to be able to get some of these issues out for a wider floor vote and it could really tie things up, and if we don't feel like we're being respected, if we don't feel like we're being treated the way we should, that's something that we're willing to do. So, some of the strongest language I've heard from anybody atop his campaign talking about what they're willing to do at the national convention."

In other words, Bernie may or may not be capable of understanding that the party will never let him win, but - as I argued here - that might not necessarily be his endgame. Bernie isn't eyeing the kind of victory that the Democrats, and Clintons in particular, are used to seeking. His "win conditions" are as much ideological as they are political. Considering that Hillary doesn't really believe in anything, it's not surprising that she's failed to grasp that. The longer he's in, the more damage he and his army of true believers will deal the Democrat party.

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