Bernie Sanders needs to suspend his campaign now. Here's why

[wyldwolf]

I've never voted for Sanders. But I've never believed he posed a mortal threat to the republic. His bombast can be annoying, even in small doses. But Trump's deficits are genuinely terrifying, especially when a crisis highlights their severity. And while congressional and judicial oversight would almost certainly constrain Sanders' conduct as president, it's unclear that either can withstand Trump's relentless challenges to constitutional order.

After Biden's triumph on Super Tuesday II, it's unlikely that I and other Michigan voters will be forced to choose between Trump and Sanders. Although he has yet to be mathematically eliminated, Sanders' disappointing performance in Michigan all but dashes his hopes to capture the Democratic nomination.

But Sanders still has an opportunity to prove that I and others were right when we rejected those facile comparisons between him and Trump.

If Sanders believes what he has consistently argued — that Trump's tenure has been an American tragedy, and that his re-election would extinguish reproductive freedom and civil liberties while crippling efforts to expand health care, reduce economic inequality, and slow the pace of climate change, his obligation to suspend his campaign is clear.

And he needs to take that decisive step in a matter of days, not weeks, joining the rest of Biden's erstwhile rivals in a united Democratic campaign to reclaim the White House.

Every day Joe Biden spends parrying Sanders' increasingly desperate attacks on Biden's 44-year voting record is a day squandered in the campaign to hold Trump accountable for his administration's ongoing incompetence. Every news cycle consumed by arguments over Medicare-for-all is a news cycle in which Trump's evisceration of the nation's public health infrastructure goes unchallenged.

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2020/03/11/bernie-sanders-campaign-donald-trump/5011355002/