Sanders is making his long goodbye count - By E.J. Dionne Jr.

[geek tragedy]

30. again, Sanders supporters aren't migrating because of anything Sanders is saying.

Those that are migrating are ahead of him in that regard. The ones who are migrating are doing so because, hello, Clinton vs Trump isn't a close call for rational people.

And he's not framing the movement as being one inside the party--he's castigating the party for what he claims is a policy of excluding independent voters (which is complete horse puckey--anyone who wants to register as a Democrat is free to do so).


And where this is going is him ratcheting up confrontations with the party's nominee--first on the platform drafting committee, then we get it July 8/9, then a convention floor fight.

And what happens when his die-hard supporters see that his shibboleths (single payer, carbon tax, free college) that he says are of such paramount importance get rejected from the platform in a very public manner on the convention floor? When he gets denied a speaking slot because he refuses to concede? When he turns the convention into a food fight?

Does that help defeat Donald Trump?

Sanders has his agenda. Helping elect Hillary Clinton in November is not on that agenda.