Bernie Sanders defends his support for Clinton in 2016

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67. Actually, many of his own supporters here should

remember how he largely disappeared after the primary, and not just for Democrats and Hillary n the GE. Sure he did some reluctant, party-paid appearances, but never mislead anyone into believing he really supported her.

For a long time he wasn't really around for his own most loyal followers either, leaving them hurting and mostly without a leader's guidance. (I figured he was probably sick of them too.) But I remember their isolation on the JPR forum, where they tried to rally themselves with lies and conspiracies about Hillary and the ACA to justify their actions while they guessed at when he would reappear to lead their revolution.

My own biggest concern, income inequality, was mostly back-benched by him in 2016, so his followers left on their own defaulted to healthcare, which everyone feels they understand.

Thus, with only occasional words from him back in his senate seat, his revolutionaries spent all of 2017 arguing passionately for the need to kill (and someday replace) Obamacare -- as the Republicans worked hard at exactly that -- until it finally dawned on them that that was exactly what they were likely to get, without replacement. Then they mostly went quiet about that.

We all remember all this. But, again, the point is where was Sanders? It's foolish to pretend he worked hard to elect Hillary when he mostly disappeared from his own revolution. He was around being a senator, but not really, not the way they needed him. MIA until he needed them again for this run.