How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"?

[Ken Burch]

40. I'm not defending anyone's decision not to vote for Hillary.

What I'm talking about is the endless threads arguing that Bernie's campaign should never have happened, or that campaign caused the result in November.

If people shouldn't be arguing that Hillary should not have been the nominee, they equally shouldn't be arguing that Bernie's campaign was illegitimate and should never even have happened.

If Bernie had stayed out, the fall result would have been exactly the same.

There had been twenty-four years of continuous right-wing attacks on Hillary. An unopposed nomination and a platform with no Sanders proposals would not have counteracted the effects of those twenty-four years. It was up to the Clinton campaign to come up with an effective counter-strategy, and that campaign chose not to.

Bernie and his supporters bear no responsibility for that, and a blander primary and more centrist fall campaign would not have made any of it go away.