General Discussion

My predictions for 2018:

* Bernie will enter the Democratic primary while making it known that, if he wins, he will decline the nomination.
* There are enough people who care more about refighting the primary, and about acting out their butthurt that anyone dared to run against Hillary, that someone else will enter the Democratic primary and will denounce Bernie along the lines of this OP.
* That someone else will get a lot of enthusiastic boosterism from the bash-Bernie brigade here, with many threads about evil Bernie is and how the party should instead run a "real" Democrat.
* The Democrats of Vermont will overwhelmingly reject this divisive argument. Bernie will clobber any and all challengers in the Democratic primary.
* Bernie, having won the primary, will again decline the Democratic nomination.
* In the general election, Bernie will be re-elected as an independent.
* In the Senate, Bernie will continue to caucus with the Democrats. If 2018 goes very well, and we hold all our current seats while ousting Heller, Flake, and Cruz, Bernie will be the crucial 51st vote to enable the Democrats to organize the Senate, so that Schumer as Majority Leader can control the flow of legislation, and so that Democratic committee and subcommittee chairs can launch a whole bunch of investigations of the Trump administration.
* On DU, that won't matter. Some people will keep right on irrationally bashing Bernie.

I'll be more tolerant of the venom on DU if that part about the 51st vote comes to pass.