Bernie? He lost to Hillary by almost 4 million votes, then lost to Biden by 9 million votes (The largest margin since 2004) - how is that motivating the base.
He's a protectionist idealist who the republicans were dying to run against because they knew he'd be easier than Biden.
I'm not a Bernie supporter. Just pointing out that the party repeatedly screws itself over.
Also just because a person loses a primary does not mean they are they weaker candidate in the general election. The math can easily go the other way.
Your party aggressively screwed over a candidate who could have energized the base and still would have captured 99.99% of the center in a trade for a principle-less barely coherent snooze fest of a human being who would toe the old party line and then you claim the only remedy is to play as dirty as the other side?
Excuse me for not buying it.
I voted for Obama but the democratic party is bordering on as repulsive as the republicans these days and this type of thinking is to blame.