Bernie Sanders is the most-liked politician in the United States.

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6. I don't want to rehash the primaries.

I really don't. But it's obvious that if the campaign was on "likeability", we'd be staring at a Sanders landslide in the general election next month. Clearly, being liked is not the be all and end all of Presidential politics.

Bernie however does set a new model for politics. Politicians who remember that they are public servants first and foremost and that they work for us. If not the President, then next time Bernie runs for Senate he needs to run as a Dem, and become Senate Majority/Minority leader. If he's majority leader he could greatly influence how the Senate runs. If not majority but minority he's influencing the Democratic Party platform. Just sending him back to Vermont and sticking under his (I) would be a waste of such a talent. He could have gone nuclear, went under the Green ticket and let in Trump. But he didn't. He played by the rules. President Clinton needs to use his talents to push the progressive agenda in 2017 and beyond. She doesn't have to be liked; she can be the bully and an effective one. This can be an effective "good cop, bad cop" partnership.