This is what Bernie's campaign is putting out even as he has no path.

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18. "Internecine nightmare." I don't think we have to worry about

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him pushing MfA in the senate in opposition to improving the ACA. He's a self-disimpowered caucus of one.

I am wondering if he's now addicted to national attention and also how he'll regard the future of his socialist revolution. He is getting votes. Otoh, he spent 25 years mostly vegging in congress, just doing whatever he needed to keep his gold-ring job. He might just return to his previous pattern of badmouthing Democratic legislation, voting for it, then returning to badmouthing it, but with an attention and devoted audience for his remaining years that he never had before.

Apparently a lot more people are on to him than we realized, though. How contemptible is that to refuse to support better coverages and lower premiums for the ACA because they'd undermine support for destroying and replacing it?

Even if possible, and not an almost insanely dysfunctional choice Democrats in congress would rightly refuse, it'd have taken at hopeful minimum another 8 years after he took office to make happen, during which time a number of elections and potential power shifts would take place, and of course many legal attempts to destroy all and parts of it, some successful.

All the while, Sanders would be trying to keep the necessary enthusiasm for MfA pumped up by sabotaging the ACA.

I'm looking forward to all the carefully researched books that will dig into motives and much more. From the safety of my armchair in a stabilized society, of course. But this dangerously reactionary transitional era is a wonderful gift to historians and researchers into the psychology of mass movements, extremism, etc. It'll be fascinating to view what we're going through with the insights of the future. Once we're safe past.