My detailed take on why NOT Bernie Sanders

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88. I have very nuanced and well thought out

reasons for not supporting Sanders and you hit many of them.

Top two that you covered:

The asterisks in the budgetary figures is the first. You don't get to come into the game threatening to burn it all down without a really detailed and nuanced plan on how you plan to build it back up. And, people, don't come at me about how Sanders never said that. The entire reason his plan is supposed to be better is because it is "revolutionary". But if he can't tell me how it works, I'll stick with incrementalism and a candidate with a track record for jamming smaller policy tweaks through hostile territory.

Second is the divisiveness, the purity tests and dissing good Democrats and activists who have been fighting the good fight for years and years as the establishment. Good presidents need to build consensus and coalitions, particularly when facing a hostile congress. I don't see that he is able to do that at all.