Worried by Trump's continued popularity, the media in 2020 are doubling down on promoting the top Democrat primary candidates.  And with Bernie and Buttigieg raising impressive amounts compared to Biden, the latest media reports about both of them remind us that the media are all about a pro-Democrat narrative.

Three months ago, 78-year-old Bernie Sanders had a heart attack.  Thanks to the happily mild nature of the heart attack, Bernie was soon back on the campaign trail.  Still, Democrat voters had to be worried, for the episode reminded everyone of his mortality.  While Trump continues to show almost preternatural vigor, when you look at Biden (77 years old) and Bernie, you can almost see the actuarial reality of Death's cold hands hovering over their shoulders.

That the media believe they must rescue Bernie is the only way to explain the spin the latest USA Today report put on Bernie Sanders's health:

Is Bernie Sanders drinking from the fountain of youth? If his medical records, released to the public Dec. 30, are any indication, he has a secret or two. At age 78 and on the home stretch of his second presidential primary campaign, the Vermont senator shows no signs of slowing down.

His wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, says it all boils down to prioritizing healthy habits, both on the road and at home. For the presidential hopeful, that means baseball — and lots of fruit.

"He's always been an athlete and an outdoors person," O'Meara Sanders told the Burlington Free Press in an exclusive interview. Senator Sanders spends his time on and off the campaign trail playing baseball, basketball when he can find a hoop, and football when the weather allows it.  

This "news" report feels like the stories the Russian news media routinely run about Putin's macho prowess.  When Putin released an official calendar showing him cuddling kittens, flying fighter jets, and lighting candles with priests, The Sun laughingly countered with pictures showing Putin being the über-manly everyman.

I'd love to have some pictures showing that all-American communist boy...er, geriatric male, Bernie Sanders, out there swinging the bat, throwing arcing passes, and racing around dunking baskets.

It's a different story with 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg.  For the remaining moderates in the Democrat party, his youth is a problem, as well as his extreme politics and his limited management experience as mayor of a mid-size American city with outsize crime and race issues.  Reagan would have known how to handle Buttigieg's youth, as he did when his own age was questioned relative to Walter Mondale's 56 years:

What should the media tell voters who worry about a candidate's youth, inexperience, and radical politics?  You tell them that young voters despise Buttigieg for being too moderate:

Normally the first candidate of a generation can expect to ride a wave of youth enthusiasm, as John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton once did. For the 37-year-old Buttigieg, it's been quite the opposite.

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Why is the enmity from young, left-wing activists toward Buttigieg so visceral? It's true that they favor Bernie Sanders, but Buttigieg comes in for a type of loathing that surpasses even that they hold for Sanders' older rivals, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.

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The unspoken truth about the furor Buttigieg arouses is that his success threatens a core belief of young progressives: that their ideology owns the future, and that the rise of millennials into Democratic politics is going to bring an inevitable demographic triumph for the party's far left wing.

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So it's especially galling that the first millennial to take a serious run at the presidency is nothing like the left's imagined savior. Buttigieg is a veteran, an outspoken Christian, a former McKinsey consultant, and, frankly, closer to Mitt Romney than Sanders or generational peer AOC in his aw shucks personal affect. In the eyes of radicalized young leftists, Buttigieg isn't just an ideological foe, he's worse than that: He's a square.

Hell, yes!  The candidate who wants to out-Obama Obamacare with an individual mandate of $7,000 per year, decriminalize all drugs, return to Obama-era immigration policies, legalize third-trimester abortion nationwide (although he's always carefully oblique about this), make the Bible align with his sexuality rather than align his life with the Bible, and reinstate America's economy-killing corporate taxes is such a conservative that his own age cohort hates him.

With that spin, what inevitably comes to mind is this guy: