Bernie Sanders voters helped Trump become President

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455. Yep.

He did more to divide us Democrats than anyone I've ever seen in all my 64 years. Even more than Ted Kennedy did, in weakening Jimmy Carter's case for reelection - so reagan could slither in and win. I love Ted Kennedy and deeply honor his memory, EXCEPT for that. He wound up doing mortal damage to our nation that's had VERY bad repercussions ever since. He gave wavering Democrats a reason NOT to stand with the standard-bearer. And it left us bitterly divided when we should have been in lockstep together, shoulder-to-shoulder, to head off the reagan onslaught and ensure Carter a second term. And, dammit, he held out 'til the bitter end, too, because baloney. Same thing for Eugene McCarthy. He did that, too, back in the late 60s, giving rebel Dems reason not to band together again, and support Hubert Humphrey. And so we went into the general election divided as a party, and it got us Richard Nixon.

I'm old enough to remember this. I watched it play out because I was a news junky very early-on. I will try to forgive Bernie Sanders, just as I did with Ted Kennedy, and Gene McCarthy before him. But I WON'T EVER forget. All three of them meant well, originally. But I suspect it soon became an ego thing, that led them to put themselves ahead of the good of the country and the party that would elevate and protect America and all the people in it, not just the rich, the white, and the privileged. Bernie Sanders did the same thing. Absolutely.