2016 Postmortem
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The Socialist Democrats. USA would be Sanders natural home, but they don't run presidential candidates anymore.
So Sanders, despite hating on the democrats for years, as just one of the two parties of the ruling class
(see: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/sanderss-party-problem/460293/)
decides to run for president as a democrat.
Why?
Well, it's clear, the Democratic Party has a lot of intact national political infrastructure. If you could seize that infrastructure, and turn it into a militantly leftist party, you'd have your socialist party.
It's a long shot, to be sure, but that's clearly what Sanders is up to. He's trying take the Democratic Party and remake it in his own socialist image. Pretty daring move. He's gotten farther than you might have thought he would at first. But it's pretty clear that the powers that be within the democratic party don't want to see the party become an outright socialist party. Otherwise, they would have become that long ago. I bet they believe such a party is not likely to be a majority party anytime soon.