2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A Chant just broke out at Ohio State during Bernie's speech [View all]mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)in governing. What they were interested in doing, as it happened (and as many pointed out) was insuring that he would be a one-term president.
The difference between the Obama Presidency and a Sanders Presidency is that Sanders would be fighting the Establishment from Day One, unremittingly, and pushing everything forward as hard as was possible. The only way Sanders can get into the White House is with a massive outpouring of voters but if he does, well then, he'll have a massive number of supporters relying on the Internet rather than the MSM to get his message out.
After that, as I've said before, given the numbers and the money it should be possible to primary or recall anyone who needs it. Kick a couple of Congress critters out of office and the number of survivors who will sign on will be YUGE!
Now THAT would be really progressive.