Feb 21: Sanders on VT public radio: "I did not know Russian bots were promoting my campaign."

[Hortensis]

71. Definitely for those who'll believe it. But I'm wondering

if he may be to sort of a degree one of those believers-despite-everything he's speaking to.

Toward the end of the campaign he was a very, very angry man, as if he really believed something was stolen from him. His staffers were all amazed and alarmed by it. Not a rational thing, but seemed rather more an over-invested thing. Where emotion rules and intellect and integrity take a holiday.

That might have been expected to have passed. But to this day as we watch what electing Trump is meaning for the nation, there's no indication he regrets anything. And this auto-turning and casting blame at Hillary for the Russians' assistance with his campaign (!) certainly suggests his throwing mud on her is still SOP.

And, when you think about what that suggests about his self discipline and judgment, worse should not be surprising if it happens.