Sanders' top strategists leave his campaign.

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25. Putin uses him to help defeat Democrats

who block his militant imperialism against two dozen nations and to throw power to traitorous Republicans who help him. Putin is desperate to keep Democrats from winning in 2020 because we will put and end to his attempt to destroy America through occult warfare. His fellow Oligarchs who maintain him in power are very afraid he has overreached. He has.

So what positives could possibly outweigh the reality that Russia will use Sanders has a weapon in its occult warfare again, when we have so many strongly progressive Democratic candidates who all pose a real threat to Putin’s ambitions?

Sanders will be a much weaker weapon this time, but we can count on them using every weapon available, and every derailed voter who resents Sanders loss and goes on to vote third-party or for Republicans again will repay Russia’s investment.

You do know that he is already, once again, trying to draw conservative Trump populists to himself to win? What socially conservative populists require to be wooed is not what would draw me but would once again make me run the other direction.

They loved his badmouthing Democrats, you know, and his pursuit of them guarantees he will have to continue it — to Russia’s benefit.

Socially conservative but economically progressive populists are not exactly big on diversity or social justice issues. That’s why Sanders couldn’t promise our black voter bloc what they required in 2016 — It would have lost him most of his populist vote.

By the way, I noticed that Ocasio-Cortez is not supporting his candidacy but rather expressing enthusiasm for all the wonderful Democratic progressives who are running. Good for her!

Also, her cosponsor for the new green deal bill is one of her many Democratic colleagues whose voting records are actually effectively indistinguishable from Sanders’ on progressive issues.