Bernie and his campaign and supporters did nothing wrong and made no mistakes and only lost because the American democratic socialist road to power is structurally foreclosed and I think we can all agree that in light of that a revolutionary movement is the only way forward https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😇" title="Smiling face with halo" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with halo">

Really though, by any conventional metric for a campaign - money, enthusiasm, rallies, canvases, volunteers - Bernie did win. You aren& #39;t crazy to think that. But there& #39;s a brick wall.

And I feel extremely bad for people who have already moved on to "Well next time we& #39;re just gonna have to run faster!" You ran fast! You did good! It& #39;s a brick wall.

Lotta replies to this saying the Bernie campaign did make some mistakes. Hmm. Thanks for the input, I& #39;ll have to think about it some more.

Thought about it some more and though Bernie& #39;s defeat could& #39;ve been overdetermined, I don& #39;t think we can blame the campaign. You guys should give them a break, they worked really hard and ran into the limits of an American electoral socialist strategy.