2016 Postmortem

a victim. Clinton was always ahead in every metric, especially pledged delegates early on, so that is just reality to report that huge pledged delegate lead was a barometer of superdelegates. This was explained constantly during the primaries, but making Bernie the victim was the priority for his campaign.

Bernie was given a pass by the media on virtually every attack against Clinton, and he happily smeared her without having to prove a single thing he said. When asked to identify a single policy she effected in favor of Wall Street, he could not provide an example, yet he implied she was corrupt anyways. He could not name a single Wall Street executive he would have prosecuted or the crime they committed, yet he called them all frauds and said their entire business model was fraud. He did not get single payer passed in Vermont, yet he campaigned on it nationally and maligned Democrats who merely pointed out the political realities the he, himself, faced which resulted in single payer failing in Vermont. He derided Clinton for transparency, yet would not release his tax returns.

He was given a pass on all those contradictory and hypocritical positions. He got a huge pass from the media. That's why people said he was not vetted.

In the meantime, his attacks on Clinton and the Democrats were happily picked up by Trump, who thanked Bernie for doing some of his dirty work. Sanders' paved the way for Donald, who also stole some of Bernie's material, and Bernie's ego cannot resist wanting to take credit for Trump's success. That's why it's obvious he was talking about himself when he complimented Donald. He could have just said Donald had a nice family like Hillary said about him when she was asked.