Bernie Sanders Storms CNN And Stops A Lie About Democrats Dead In Its Tracks

[Warren DeMontague]

137. I think there are some faulty premises in your post.

I have about as much interest in endlessly re-hashing the 2016 primaries as I do in listening to a 5 hour loop of Rebecca Black's "Friday".. that said, it is hard for me to imagine that what drove Bernie Sanders' following back then was something about personality or great man hero-worship.

The guy- and I like the guy- is frumpy, cranky and has a tendency to say the same thing over and over. He's NOT Obama. However, there was a thirst in the party for someone to bring issues to the fore that Sanders did- like, as you mention, a $15 minimum wage. Rightly or wrongly, there was a perception that some of this stuff had been ignored by the folks in charge. I'm talking early 2016, now, not by the time we got into the general.

I do believe that his presence in the primaries actually resulted in a much MORE issues-oriented campaign, and despite much hand-wringing to the contrary, I believe he helped both our party and caused Hillary to run a better campaign in the long run.


Obama himself said exactly the same thing.

But, yes, we should focus on issues and effecting positive change.