If Sanders had won the primaries, Trump and Putin’s internet trolls would have then turned their full attention on him, and they would’ve done the exact same thing to him, that they did to Clinton.
I strongly doubt it.
Putin didn’t have to be loyal to Trump, anybody who meets the Kremlin’s agenda would do and it’s naive to think their preference list contained only Trump. Sanders might’ve been another preference, maybe even stronger than the messy Pres. Bumpkin. Sanders voted against the Magnitsky Act in 2012, and was one of the 2 people voting against the recent R*ussian sanctions, he was an excellent choice on his own. What else? Seeing a number of pro-Bernie trolls ALSO promoting Kremlin narratives, my guess is that the campaign keeps going.
It’s 2 politicians who benefited from the DNC hack and R*ussian trolls, not one.
The Republicans did one right thing; when they became suspicious of an outsider’s campaign, they started to collect a dossier. And the Democrats did one wrong thing; when they became suspicious of an outsider’s campaign, they tried to undermine him politically and swept the problem under the rug.
but if you start having a ‘submit or else’ attitude…
I would like to kindly remind that there is also a bunch of “Independents” and “Moderates” who don’t have to party with your party. Centrist Democrats reluctantly nominating Sanders… then losing the general election. With the incumbent president having a non-zero chance to be removed, impeached, kicked out, resigned, not nominated for re-election…
they have completely fucked themselves over with Trump
They are fucked up big time, but with the Trump investigation going, they at least have a chance for cleansing. The Democrats don’t have this luxury, they have to do something on their own accord.
