Back when it looked like Sanders was on track to be the nominee, it was obvious by looking at the polling data that his “strength” was an illusion based solely on the splitting of the moderate vote. I was on the other side of a lot of conversations with my more progressive friends who like Drew refused to understand that point. They seemed to honestly think Sanders was going to go in Super Tuesday, get 25~30% of the vote and 65% of delegates.

I live in Wisconsin, one of the battleground States. Someone is going to be President and my preference as to who is a pretty simple hierarchy: Biden, Sanders, a flaming bag of dog *beep*, Trump.

I happen to think Biden will be a pretty good President. He has an agenda (if you bother go to his website and read through his policy positions.) It’s full of stuff that should be palatable to most leftists. He has the instincts and skills to coalition build and actually get *beep* done. I am somewhat skeptical of his chances of constructively reaching across the aisle, but he has a much better chance than Sanders wagging his finger and trying to lecture the GOP into submission.

I also happen to think Sanders would be a terrible President, should he somehow be elected. He’s been in Congress for 29 years with the legislative record of a gadfly. (It is telling that exactly one Senator endorses him.) He would have zero chance of getting his massive structural changes to the country enacted. Among other things, the GOP would be united in scorched-earth opposition. We would just be trading Trumpian chaos for the Sanders version of it.

If the bitterly disappointed Sanders supporters want to take one object lesson from this, it’s pretty simple: vote.