2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Its Time for Bernie Sanders to Apologize to his Supporters, and to President Obama [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)however, he is waaaaaaaaaaaay down the list of reasons HRC lost (the #1 reason is that the election was rigged, the #2 reason is that the media is rigged, #3, James Comey, #4, Trump's shittiness took up way too much airtime from Hillary's agenda) and he did work for her.
The emoprogs would have sold him down the river even if he did concede in March. The division in the party predated Bernie; the emos were looking for anyone to run against the "corporatist"* Hillary because they wanted someone to automagically push the Dems back left without them having to do the work (it worked with HRC is because, surprise surprise, Democratic POC are pretty progressive, they're more of the party than they were in 92, and HRC was returning to her roots now that the political conditions were there for her to do so).