How can Bernie get his campaign back on track?
Bernie’s mistake: giving his opponents a name to call him
Four years ago, with Bernie Sanders launching his 2016 campaign for President, some of my old college friends decided to support him in the primaries, one calling his campaign a “moral crusade.”
My response at the time was unfortunately prescient. I responded on Facebook “well maybe the Republicans will be able to win after all.” When I pointed out that all a Republican would have to do is point out that Bernie was a socialist and he would become unelectable, one of my other friends argued that “everybody already knows that, and at any rate, nobody cares about it anymore.”
For the record, I have a deep level of respect for Bernie Sanders and have followed his career since he was mayor of Burlington, VT back when I was in high school and college. I think he is a person of integrity and commitment, and his position in American history is assured whether he is elected President or not. As a result, I think we could do a lot worse that electing Bernie.
That said, although Hillary Clinton was deeply flawed as a candidate and lost for any number of reasons, many of them her own making, one factor that hurt her campaign was Bernie’s primary challenge and the way Trump and the Russians manipulated his…
