Sanders, or ANY progressive for President in 2020.

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247. No crystal ball needed. We have recent history as a guide.

Women and persons of color made it clear that they don't want Sanders to be the nominee, regardless of his popularity. The race was over by Super Tuesday, because the writing was all over the wall.

There were 13 closed primaries (only accessible by Democrats, who are the most likely to turn out and vote Dem in the general). Clinton won 12 of those 13. Oregon (in mid-May, long after the race was decided) was the lone exception. Sanders won just 7 primaries outside of New England. Including the open primary of Michigan, which Sanders won by just 1.4%. The other 6 were Oklahoma, Wisconsin (open), Indiana (open), West Virginia, Oregon and Montana (open). Not exactly the most diverse states.

There is broad support for Bernie's positions. Most Democrats have more or less the same positions. But his dismissal of so-called "identity politics" - his failure to really grasp structural racism and sexism - and his buying into the false (and inherently racist) "white working class/economic anxiety" narrative, leaves him reliant upon naive white millennials and others who also don't have a grasp of oppression theory (and the role race, as well as gender, plays in US life/politics).