2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We can find a balance, so in the spirit of honesty.. [View all]radius777
(3,836 posts)If he couldn't beat the wimpy Dem party and milquetoast Debbie Wasserman Schultz, how was he going to beat the GOP/KGB/Trump/Stone/Comey slime machine? And Hillary would've won easily with all of that aside from Comey, which shifted the race at the last moment.
All political parties, large and small, have an establishment that favors itself. No challenger should ever expect complete fairness, this is how life works, you need to knock out the champion/establishment to win.
The past two Dem presidents (Bill, Obama) both were outsiders who overcame their party establishment to win the nom and the presidency.
Sanders had no appeal to the the (actual) base of the modern (Clinton/Obama) Dem party, who are PoC, women, immigrants, registered Dems, moderates, metro/diverse areas, etc - all of which Hillary won in droves all over the country.
Sanders was effectively eliminated on March 15th, and only hung around due to the caucuses in homogenous states, that are highly dominated by alt-left activist types, not rank-and-file Democrats.
His failure to concede then, and instead ramp up damaging attacks on Hillary, weakened her (especially with millennials) and gave ammo to Trump, that he would use in the general election.
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