Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide

[Warren DeMontague]

86. The same conventional wisdom that told us Jeb! would for sure win the GOP nod.

The same conventional wisdom that told Derpy Wasserman Schultz how "reasonable" she would sound going to the NY Times and agitating for the imprisonment of grannies who use medical marijuana, when over 70+ of Florida ended up voting the other way.


This was not a conventional wisdom year. But we don't know what would have happened with Sanders as the nominee. I suspect either he would have done better enough in the rust belt without losing the liberal base of the party (Manhattan and LA weren't going to turn around and vote for Trump, just because Bernie was the nominee) that he would have won. But maybe he would have got walloped. Don't know. Another question mark is whether Bloomberg would have entered the race if Sanders was in. A possibility.

One thing I can safely say, is that if Sanders had been the nominee and also lost, the imbecilic "---bro" bashing and recriminations here would be positively intolerable. So who knows, maybe it's all for the best.