Here's why I don't think Bernie will run in 2020-and a way of making sure he doesn't. [View all]

[Ken Burch]

1) The guy realizes that the voters would not elect a 79-year-old man, even a 79-year-old man in what seems to be vigorous good health, as president;

2) There's a good chance that Kamala Harris will run. Bernie isn't a masochistic idiot-he WOULD understand that the optics of running against the first plausible African-American woman presidential candidate in 2029, after running against the first plausible woman candidate in 2016, would be so horrific that they would permanently overshadow his economic justice message.

3) None of this was about ego for the guy-I don't think he even wanted to run in 2016. It was and is about wanting to get the ideas his supporters championed into the larger political discussion. He ran because the absence of Elizabeth Warren from the race meant there'd be no candidate challenging corporate power or unjust concentrations of wealth in the hands of the few in the race at all.

As I've said, I doubt he wants to run. And a lot of us would argue that the best way to make sure he doesn't is for the party to embrace the economic component and the critique of corporate power from his campaign, while continuing to center the fight to defend choice and end social oppression.

We can call it "Justice For The Many".