After Bernie Sanders’s victory in Wisconsin yesterday, his supporters were prepared to crown him the King of the North.
The heartlands of social and economic justice, anti-war progressivism are in WI's north. @BernieSanders swept them. pic.twitter.com/QjJPgZUV9s
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) April 6, 2016
Unfortunately for Bernie, the actual King in the North, Robb Stark, met a grisly end along with thousands of his supporters in a massacre so bloody that it would later be known as the Red Wedding—which we can all agree is a fate much worse than losing to Hillary Clinton. Anyway, Bernie is more like Brienne of Tarth (the principled one in a den of thieves) or Beric Dondarrion (the insurgent leader of a band of outsiders) or, to his critics, the High Sparrow (the powerful head of a group of fanatics).