Trump has a very narrow path to the presidency, but everything Sanders is doing is widening that path. I will grant that this is not his aim - his aim is to move leftward what he thinks is an errant Democratic Party. But what he is doing - trying to create wedge issues in the party, continuing to beat the "crooked Hillary" drum in various ways, taking the warpath to a convention where he cannot win the nomination, is brinksmanship. He is continually raising the risk of a President Trump in a game of chicken with the hope that Hillary gives in (I guess since he has little to lose). Specifically, during late April, May and June, Trump has been the presumptive nominee and Hillary for all practical purposes is too, but Trump is free to spend all this time defining - swiftboating - Hillary. At the same time, she is distracted by Bernie's various attacks, making it harder for her to deflect the swiftboating, in some cases Bernie's messages only reinforcing Trump's definition of her during this critical period ("I suggest the superdelegates look very closely at the IG report"
, trying to make her commit to positions that won't play in swing states, etc. And he is planning to do this all the way through the convention, by which the period of defining the candidates is done. In an alternate world where around the time his nomination became impossible, Bernie decided to support the inevitable Democratic nominee, the Democrats would have a 98% chance of winning in November not 65% or whatever Predictwise says now.
Ralph Nader, Jr.
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