Focusing on Bernie Sanders as an individual is a harmful distraction

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2. Any self-identifed progressive who voted, but refused to vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016

is NOT filled with some "sincere idealism"

That is bullshit.

This was the election of a lifetime. Everyone knew what was at stake, and what the differences was between trump and Hillary.

The Supreme Court, civil rights, women's rights, workers rights, the environment, healthcare, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and on and on and on.

It would be one thing is those so-called self-identified progressives who refused to vote for the Democratic nominee, actually regretted their decision, but they don't.

While the majority of Sanders' supporters voted for Hillary, enough of them didn't, and have no remorse in what they did.

Your equivalency OP, "both sides were bad", isn't going to cut it.

The comment that "the Hillary camp crossed some line that should never have been crossed", is bullshit.

One thing is pretty certain Hillary will not run again, and one would think that Sanders would have enough sense not to run again himself, because that well is so poisoned