2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WaPo: "Bernie Sanders just gave an amazingly condescending interview about Hillary Clinton" [View all]Hekate
(90,674 posts)...and a complete inability to work well with others. Barney Frank nailed his personality flaws long ago, and has been proven right again and again during this campaign:
Bernie alienates his natural allies, Frank said. His holier-than-thou attitudesaying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone elsereally undercuts his effectiveness.
When both Frank and Sanders were members of the Banking Committee, Frank said to The Washington Post in July 1991 that Sanders was not effective from within the committee, and suggested that Sanders didnt want to be. But maybe thats not his goal, says Frank. There are some people who seek to have a major effect inside, and others who opt to use the place as a platform.
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/04/11/history-barney-frank-bernie-sanders-criticize
He's just using Democrats and the Democratic Party as his personal platform -- I find this really sad, because he would rather be right (in his own eyes) than get stuff accomplished. It makes him unsuited to either a Cabinet post or VP.