I don't know that that's a problem entirely separate from Bernie. Successors don't just spring from the ether, existing leaders need to help them get there. But while I can think of multiple politicians Elizabeth Warren has mentored and promoted, I don't know who Bernie has tried to groom.

A few, like AOC, have been inspired by him, but it doesn't seem like he's doing anything to try to prepare a successor. He's just going to be out there doing his thing until he dies, then who knows who replaces him in Vermont or replaces him ideologically on the left.

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Eh, I don't know. Lincoln was well aware that he was walking into a massively complex situation with nothing short of the future of the country 100% on the line. He knew he was doing it at great personal risk, and I am sure on some level he knew it could (and ultimately, would) cost him his life.

Lincoln's life was cut short so ultimately we never got to see what the next phase of his life would look like, but he persevered in the face of the greatest struggle this nation has ever faced.

Trump and friends may well create as dangerous of a scenario as the civil war, especially if Thiel, Vance, and the other tech authoritarians achieve their goal of radically overhauling if not outright destroying the country.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz was the DNC chair at the time. She put her foot on the scale for Hillary, and set us on the current course.

I will always remember the theater of that night in the primaries 2020, when Biden entered the race and everyone around Bernie dropped. Biden, riding Obama's name to grab the majority. It felt like I was watching them stab Caesar. Bearnie had the majority. He would have won that election. My faith in politics died that night as I watch a political maneuver that I had only ever seen play out in film happen in real life. That's when I really knew we were doomed.

Sanders makes too much sense to be president and americans are too stupid to have common sense.

The DNC could have let him win instead of cheating him out of the primary in 2016, we should have had a green new deal by now.

He's one of precious few in office who have any credibility on the issue.

Pritzker is the only one even close to Sanders level, and he has the money to create a private army to hunt the gop traitors down like animals. I hope he does. File state level treason charges against Trump and his appointees, fly in some Ukrainian spec ops troops, a bunch of SAM's and drones, and I'll be one of the first volunteers help end the Russia problem

Democrats are the controlled opposition. It's why they would never give Sanders a fair shake. He would upset them "good billionaires" because going further right is preferable than a single step left for the wealthy.

I haven’t had any luck so I’m hijacking this comment to ask: does anyone know where we can find dates for his speaking tour? I want to bring my family to hear him but I don’t know when he’ll be in our neck of the woods.

And he's always been fighting back. Dudes been an activist for what, the last 50 years or so?

You say that but articles like this don't fit that narrative. There are Republican voters who like Bernie and they have been showing up to his rallies for years. I know several Trump voters who have said they would have voted for Sanders if they got the chance. The idea that progressives don't appeal to conservatives is neoliberal propaganda. Progressives hit on alot of the same problems as conservative politicians they just have different solutions (and a lot less bullshit). Neoliberalism just pretends that the status quo is fine. Despite the name conservatives are largely unhappy with the status quo. That's how we got Trump.