2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Does Sanders realize that if he does not endorse Hillary and does not "release" [View all]politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)for anything but a meet up. In the process they decided they liked the guy and showed up at the polls (with a little nudging) and with one of the best groundgames ever and voted for him. Bernie is like your angry neighbor who hollers at you to get off his lawn. Bernie is old and tired and knows he doesn't have the stamina it takes to lead a 'revolution' which is why he passed the torch to the next generation in his Teleconference speech the other night.
As Trump crashes and burns, Bernie loses more of the leverage he thought he had by the day. And he knows it. The things he's holding out for now are inconsequential to the lives of those young people for whom he stoked the fire in their bellies and to think that they get in return 'open primaries' and "DWS maybe no longer will be the head of the DNC" has got to be a big letdown.