Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06

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By Bill Scher

There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.

It was the Vermont senator who personally rewrote his campaign manager’s shorter statement after the chaos at the Nevada state party convention and blamed the political establishment for inciting the violence.

He was the one who made the choice to go after Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after his wife read him a transcript of her blasting him on television.

He chose the knife fight over calling Clinton unqualified, which aides blame for pulling the bottom out of any hopes they had of winning in New York and their last real chance of turning a losing primary run around.

And when Jimmy Kimmel’s producers asked Sanders’ campaign for a question to ask Donald Trump, Sanders himself wrote the one challenging the Republican nominee to a debate.

There are many divisions within the Sanders campaign—between the dead-enders and the work-it-out crowds, between the younger aides who think he got off message while the consultants got rich and obsessed with Beltway-style superdelegate math, and between the more experienced staffers who think the kids got way too high on their sense of the difference between a movement and an actual campaign.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4B2GfU3Ec
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[geek tragedy]

1. speaking for myself, this article has gotten plenty of play here and I really

don't see further discussion of it helping anyone's agenda

[RobertEarl]

2. The bitterness comes from

The stink of a rotting democracy.

[wendylaroux]

3. the bitterness from having his nomination stolen?

yes there is a lot of bitter people out there.from the left,right,and center.

[HassleCat]

4. More conventional wisdom.

More advice why we do not dare reclaim our party from special interests and big money.

[msongs]

5. not ready for prime time nt

[RazBerryBeret]

6. Last days?

This revolution is bigger than an election...bigger than a 4 year term.

[pat_k]

7. A candidate making their own decisions after input from staff.

Horrifying.

Doesn't he know he was supposed to hire "handlers" and always do what they say?