2016 Postmortem

The fact that voters saw Trump as more honest than Hillary at the end of the presidential campaign shows how vulnerable she was on the trustworthiness front. A contributing factor was certainly the email non-scandal, which Bernie never touched and even went so far as to publicly discount in their first debate. The Clinton campaign, or some of the higher ups at least, point to Comey as the real reason she lost. If that was the deciding factor and Bernie never touched it, the diehards here (not saying you're one of them) need to take a deep breath.

Anyway, another thing Bernie did, was to state very explicitly as part of his stump speech that a Donald Trump presidency was the ultimate nightmare, and to be avoided at all costs. He was as team player as Bernie could be once the nomination process ended. So I think a lot of this post-traumatic return fire is misguided and a waste of time. For the record, I didn't vote for him and I don't think he would have come as close as Hillary did. She treated him with kid gloves and IMO he would not have been able to handle four months of red scare/why do you hate capitalism/why will you raise everyone's taxes/why are you such a weirdo tactics.