Bernie is so lucky that he didn’t win the Democratic nomination. Because if he had done I believe that Trump would have had him for dinner. We didn’t see that battle becasue it didn’t ever happen, but the ammuniton was all there to make him look like a bumbling socialist with no wins to his name.

Ok. Let’s not stop there. Even if that was not the case and he had won, the nomination and then the presidency he would have been in a much, much worse position. A reformist president who had no numbers or power to get any reforms enacted. Even less ability than Obama had.

Bernie’s lasting legacy then would not have been as The Great Reformer but as a Lame Duck. Within a year his supporters would have turned on him, writing thousands of Facebook posts ridiculing his failures to deliver. As it is Bernie will go to his grave with his huge band of admirers still believing in him and for what he stands for.

He is so darned lucky that he didn’t win. But I have to give it to him for highlighting the diabolical institutional problems that underpin American democracy. In doing so he gave us Trump, it can be argued, but many would say that this is what had to happen in order to clean up the Democrat party. In which case Bernie’s campaign was an unbridled success…. unless, unless, unless… Mr Trump ends up totally wrecking the joint. Then his will be a very bad bargain indeed.