Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide

[DonCoquixote]

92. first off

The oracles of ALL sides should be questioned, especially the loud ones. Obviously, the oracles that told us we had this with Clinton did not work this time, so we should not be trying to argue "but they really did work" at this point in the game. Both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are at home wondering what happened when this time last year, both of them had a lot of VERY arguable cases that they had this game in the bag. If they had DU accounts, they would probably be as confused along with the rest of us.

Second, the introspection that needs to happen here is "HOW DO WE AVOID THIS AGAIN?" What we see here instead is a whole lot of "well you screwed up, therefore we gotta get rid of youuu!" Meanwhile, the GOP is showing one of the few traits that we could and should steal from them; the willingness to take care of business first, then fight. What is even roe important is that, before 2018, there will be a lot of business that will only be taken care of together as a unified front. Trump could drop dead tomorrow, and all that would do is make Paul Ryan's mouth water and say "great, we can finally kill social security, thank you St. Ayn Rand!"

I get the fact that certain camps hate each other, that this was also a long delayed battle to define who we are as democrats, and that rather than unify (say someone other than Tim Kaine as VP) we are still fighting, which makes Mr. Putin and Mr. Pinjing very very happy. We will have many more fights before we get to worry about 2020, though I will say this, if the FDR wing and the Clinton Wing cannot both agree to swallow some pride, we will become the best employees the GOP ever had, much mroe effective than their actual paid stooges.