2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump. Period. [View all]ThirdEye
(204 posts)The reality is, Bernie's movement was well established and moving along full stream ahead right up until his primary loss. The issue was the beginning of the primary season: Hillary was chosen by the establishment and no one wanted oppose her. The democratic party sealed our fate that day because there's simply too many people in this country with an unreasonable hatred of the Clintons. I'm not justifying it, I'm saying it exists.
If Bernie had been given a fair chance by the media and the Democratic party hadn't already gone all in for Clinton before things started at all, he might have won the primary.
If he won the primary, he would have destroyed Trump. He had a populist message, a track record of consistency, spoke of "us" not "him", focused on corporate control of politics: all things that would have played big this year.
I think people are just so embarrassed at the loss, they're unwilling to accept that we missed our chance.