2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What lessons do YOU take from the results? [View all]Tanuki
(14,893 posts)Bernie is an honorable, dedicated man and I am certainly not going to trash him, but Trump would have done so, making a mockery of Bernie's decades of public service by calling him an ineffectual Washington insider, calling attention to the issues surrounding Jane's departure from her job as university president, publishing embarrassing Wikileaks (imagine what the likes of Jeff Weaver and Tad Devine said in e-mails!), deriding Bernie's former association with the Liberty Union Party, and more distorted and hateful crap than any of us can imagine. Trump is a pathological liar and he would have turned the full force of that on Bernie. He and his basket of deplorables would have attacked Bernie relentlessly and unfairly, making a grotesque caricature out of a good man, just as they did with a good woman.