Matt
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She's more qualified than Bernie Sanders, as well. But that is neither here nor there. I'm not even talking about the supporters. All but the most rabid of Bernie Bros are coming to Clinton's side because they realize that it best serves their interests. That's the point! By letting this happen without his "influence" Sanders has missed his opportunity. He waited so long that his one bit of leverage (his endorsement and, through that, his supporters) has dried up and come to Clinton on its own.
If you have any question as to why Bernie Sanders ought not be President, his inability to so much as use an endorsement to get what he wants should be ample evidence. You don't make policy changes by saying "I WANT IT! ITS SMART! DO IT! REVOLUTION!" That is what Obama tried for his first 5 years in office and why his key piece of legislation is little more than gap filler, second rate healthcare reform that will ultimately be forgotten by history once a better alternative comes along. Obama has become so much more effective in these past two years now that he has learned to play the political game. A game Sanders clearly is not capable of playing. If Sanders cannot so much as leverage an endorsement to gain political capital and use that to further his movement, what makes anyone think he has the competency or the political savvy to further his legislative agenda from the executive branch (much less bring about unprecedented, revolutionary reform)?
And I am sure this is the part where a Sanders supporter would say something such as "he doesn't play by the same rules as the corrupt establishment, that's the point!" But to change that you have to play by those rules because everyone else in DC is. And as Obama's first five years taught us, winning an election does not make everyone join hands, sing kumbaya, and undertake massive reform. We are not a dictatorship. The Executive Branch cannot demand policy and make it happen. It takes compromise with the legislature and use of political capital and leverage to get legislative agendas passed from the Executive Branch. Bernie Sanders does not have that skill set. Its why his campaign was always destined to fail and why we are lucky for it. His presidency would have been an unmitigated disaster of a man in way too far over his head. I've said it from day one, I'll say it again: he really is the liberal Donald Trump. A boisterous, stubborn, know-it-all who is pretty far detached from reality and would have no clue what to do if he actually took office.
Sanders could have never gotten it done. We should be grateful he isn't the nominee and if his movement is smart, they will move on from him, to a leader like Elizabeth Warren or Sherrod Brown, both of whom actually know how to make things happen.
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