Democratic Primaries

to universal healthcare and well on the path to it. In his power-seeking, Sanders has to lie to the gullible about that because, exactly like Trump, he had to compete for their support by making grandiose promises of much more for much less that he can't come through with.

Sanders didn't fuck up, though, except to misunderstand how many people don't share his contempt for themselves. It's not as if he could have had a personality transplant. He's a true believer in himself and believes his great goals fully justify his ruthless means of achieving them. Including promoting a for-profit capitalist healthcare system of the sort he's always despised because he thought he use it to draw voters.

Lying to those who trust him, hiring a pack of attack dogs to say what's too dirty for even him to say directly, attempted election theft, accepting assistance from Russia, and so on, are all SOP for insurgent populist leaders like him.

He failed is all. So far. In the 1930s, his type managed to bring down other nations that were less stable and less accustomed to the blessings of democracy but failed in America.

Try, try again. Russia's still in it, Sanders is still being used by Russia as an asset, Trump's still in office, and it's not over until it's over.