How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win.

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261. Disagree: It looks like this was in part an anti-establishment election year

so Bernie Sanders had the right idea to run against the establishment. It's the reason why he went from a marginal candidate to a contender, and why Trump won. It's just the Democratic primary voters were not as caught up in the anti establishment feelings as the general electorate. It was Trump who took the anti-establishment theme and really ran with it-- even convincing voters that all the stories in the MSM stating he was lying were written only because they were part of the establishment. And yes the establishment includes the government-- which is distrusted by both the left and right for different reasons. In this view, Bernie Sanders helped Clinton by showing her team what the election would be about, but her campaign did not choose to act. Her campaign theme should have been, "change"-- get the GOP out of government to reform the government to actually help working Americans. Basically it is like surfing: she had to ride the wave or get wiped out by opposing it.