Good article. While I’ve supported Hillary from the beginning, I’ve enjoyed Bernie Sanders and think his contribution have tremendous value beyond the presidential race.

I think there will be an honest apprasail after Pennsylvania and Maryland and the Sanders campaign and the party can take stock.

My support of Clinton was never a rejection of what Sanders proposes. I lived in England for over a decade and am an ardent supporter of universal health care, I believe in keeping banks in check and breaking them up in a healthy way and would like to see more economic equality. However, without control of the house, it’s going to be a battle for him to even start a discussion of his policies. And I think Clinton is best placed for that fight.

That said, his ideas shouldn’t die and the Democratic Party should embrace the ethos that drove those amibitions. We need the enthusiasm he brought to the campaign, we need to continue what Obama started 8 years ago — a grassroots mobilization that keeps putting pressure on elected politicians, that fights for voting rights and see’s every American legally able to vote to be allowed to take part of the process, to empower voices from every age demographic, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.

If anything, even though Clinton may be the eventual nominee, the Democratic Party should feel the Bern.