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In reply to the discussion: So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]still_one
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half-hearted at best, saying it wasn't his job to motivate his supporters to vote for Hillary.
My comment regarding illary supporters wasn't about 2016. If Sanders had won the nomination, unlike at least 10% of his supporters who refused to vote for Hillary, Hillary supporters would have voted for him. However, if he attempts to make a 2020 run for President, what comes around, goes around.
In his latest declaration where he refuses to identify as a Democrat, or be part of the Democratic party, he has essentially burned that bridge if he wants to run in 2020 as a Democrat. Those "vile" establishment Democrats, who he so fondly likes to disparage will NOT be there for him, and if he decides to play that little game of using the Democratic party to leverage his political ambitions again, that door is closed for any chance of wining the Democratic primary, and he knows darn well he won't go anywhere if he runs as an independent.
As for those terrible establishment Democrats, it was those establishment Democrats who pushed the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, issues of women's rights, workers rights, the environment, appointed Supreme Court justices like Justice Ginsburg, etc. etc. etc., but let's hear it again how the Jill Stein's and Sarandon's pushed the false equivalency lie about how there is very little difference between the republicans and Democrats.
Sarandon was there for Ralph Nader, and she was there for Jill Stein, so her credibility is a big fat zero.
My prediction is that the Democratic party will nominate someone in 2020 that will not revisit the ghosts of 2016