Sanders:"Americans Are Not Staying Up Every Day Worrying About Russias Interference In Our Election"

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102. The Mueller investigation can only have significance if the people care about the issue

and if Congress takes up its results. Mueller can continue to prosecute around the fringes, but he can't prosecute the president criminally. He can only reveal the findings of wrongdoing. Congress will have to instigate impeachment and conviction proceedings. And that, in turn, can happen only if the public is fully engaged ... and outraged. That is the power of the people.

Tossing off the issue onto Mueller is a way of washing his hands of it. And it doesn't work like that. This interview is basically Bernie saying (once again), "let others take care of this stuff. I'm telling the Democratic Party, to which I do not belong, what they should be talking about (as if they are not already talking about bread and butter issues each day), and what they should be talking about is my talking points." It doesn't set right with those of us who actually do care about things not on his list, and do stay up at night worrying about how this administration--with some help from the Russians--is ruining everything we care about. Personally, I feel that we were invaded by a foreign entity. And that scares the bejeezus out of me.

We don't need another "Listen to me, I can fix it" personality. We need to protect our very basic and vast institutions of democracy.