How Bernie Sanders made himself irrelevant

[RandySF]

Sanders is already is having a hard time getting cable news, which for months was practically running his campaign for him, to bother covering him anymore at all. The debate debacle has bought him another day or three or airtime, but then it’s right back to the general election focus on Hillary vs Trump, which is what the nation as moved on to.

The shocking part is that, once Bernie Sanders is eliminated from the race, that’ll be the end of him. Any concessions the party gives him will be temporary, in order to prevent his tantrums from causing too much of a distraction. But he’ll be a non-entity in the general election. His unwillingness to align himself with Clinton, and his gullible willingness to be Trump’s patsy, means he has no meaningful role to play between now and November. And that’s before getting back to the Senate, where no one in the chamber will want to go near him after this.

All that Sanders had to do was to show a touch of maturity and grace once he saw that the voting public had chosen someone else. Instead he’s tried to turn his loss into one phony conspiracy after another, and he keeps threatening to cause the kind of trouble that would harm his own supporters most of all. It’s why so many of his supporters are now former supporters, why most of them have stopped donating to him, and why he’ll have no constituency left by the time he finishes destroying himself.

Other than the temporary concern about how best to stay out of the blast radius as he continues to implode, no one who matters on the left takes him remotely seriously anymore. He’s the guy who lost the job interview to a more qualified opponent, and instead of accepting a different role in the company, he tried to take everyone in the lobby hostage. However this ends, it’ll end the very worst for him. And he has no remaining political future.



http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/bitter-broke-and-hated-by-his-former-allies-how-bernie-sanders-made-himself-irrelevant/24897/

[pandr32]

1. I love the analogy at the end!

[eastwestdem]

2. The only chance that he might decide to vocally support Hillary is if he misses the spotlight enough

that he wants to be significant again. Otherwise, I totally agree with this article. He will be less than insignificant, he will be shunned by all the loyal Dems in Washington.

[Sheepshank]

3. He's fighting tooth and nail to stay campaign relevant

It's completely by passing him that his most notable relevance was off the campaign trail.

[QC]

4. In Britain, the garbage can is called "the bin."