Hillary Clinton is right about Bernie Sanders

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109. She is totally right about Sanders. This quote gets to the essence of it:

"Clinton is right: Sanders' attacks on her character fed the same narrative as Trump's. They hurt her in the general election. And she's right that running on the Democratic ticket when you're not a Democrat isn't just hypocritical, it can be incredibly damaging. For one thing, it gives a candidate a platform to trash the very party he says he wants to lead."

This is the exact dynamic that we saw play out. Playing the "outsider" while still using Democrats for the exposure he could not get on his own allowed him to "trash" the party without paying any consequences because the divisiveness was to his advantage. It was duplicitous and very damaging.

Trump saw how effective the attacks were and copied them.

That statement right there sums up the dynamics very well.