“Did something unprecedented to stop him” just means “candidates with no chance of winning rallied behind the only non-Bernie candidate to have soundly won a primary contest,” something that could only be shocking if you believed that all non-Bernie politicians were NPCs https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1247027589279080459">https://twitter.com/Respectab...

I know that average Democratic voters aren’t on twitter, but campaign staffers and candidates are. Given that, maybe the Bernie campaign’s total unwillingness to move beyond “bend the knee” crowing and purity politics at any point this cycle was a bad strategy!

All these Berners are condemning Warren for not (pointlessly) endorsing him, without one second of introspection into why she refused to do so. Bernie can’t fail etc

If your Revolution manages to alienate even your closest ideological allies, you have fucked up in a profound way

If Bernie wanted concessions, he’d drop out in exchange for them.

There is literally no gesture Biden can make to win these people over: what policies he does adopt will be dismissed as obviously insincere pandering, and the ones he doesn’t will become the only acceptable test.

We’re also seeing, in this thread and others, pundits characterize a sound thrashing as a judgment against the left.

They should properly see it as a judgment against Bernie’s strategy: no one forced him to position the Democratic Party as terrible and himself as the lone savior