2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If Bernie thinks the only way to win is to win white working class voters at the expense of [View all]LisaM
(28,920 posts)He vanished. He showed up for the convention absolutely pouting - there is no other word for it - and made the narrative of the first two nights about him. Fine, it was a hot race, he felt bad, his supporters wanted appreciation, whatever. His supporters were on in the background every night yelling behind the cameras. They tried to disrupt the narrative. Luckily, it was a well-staged, inspiring convention, and everyone seemed to come together at the end.
Then Bernie disappeared. The next thing we heard was that they'd been buying vacation property in Vermont, whatever, I don't begrudge him that, but it didn't seem particularly relevant to the election.
Maybe - maybe in the last two weeks he held a few rallies, but I never saw him anywhere and I certainly don't think you can call that half-hearted attempt "vigorous".
After the election, he's suddenly everywhere - disparaging Hillary, running down the Democrats, decrying the so-called "identity politics" of trying to include people of color and Latinos and LBGT. And flogging a book about the election!!!! When did he write this book? While he was out campaigning "vigorously" for Hillary?
No, he threw her under the bus the second the election was over.