The Rachel Maddow Show Tonight: Go BERNIE !

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188. Agree entirely. Dem leaders feel Bernie can be helpful

rousing the left from the stump, and I hope that's true.

But he is not only not a Democrat, he is an anti-Democrat. He betrayed our trust during the primary with frequent lies as bad as any from the right that Hillary was stealing the election from him--lies that did a great deal of harm, lies that helped elect Trump, lies that many of his fringe of supporters still believe today. He also filed a pack of phony lawsuits in support of these lies to get them reported in the news, then dropped them all quietly once they'd done their seditious job.

And worst of all, in his irrational over-righteousness and contempt for Democrats, he promised and, in fact, did try to get the superdelegates to set our vote aside (which of course went overwhelmingly for Hillary) and effectively appoint him the nominee instead. His attempt to overset democracy itself and thwart the will of the people of the Democratic Party didn't even come close to succeeding, but we owe that to the principles and good judgment of the superdelegates.

I do trust the judgment of our leadership in taking this chance on him by making a new, special little position for him at the bottom of the leadership, which he occupies effectively alone. Note that Elizabeth Warren, the progressive leader I can trust, is positioned near the top of the leadership where she can be moved to the top as time passes. Let's just hope to heck Bernie is more of an asset than a liability this time and that they can contain his inevitable occasional attacks from within.