We are all just this screwed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and our muddled, perverted democracy
By Patrick L. Smith, Salon

(May 30, 2016 05:58 am) — The consensus is not complete, but it will be soon enough. Bernie Sanders is not going to make it, as some of us forecast many months ago (and as a lot of Hillary Clinton supporters, having pitifully diminished aspirations, assumed from the first).

The dream now being all but definitively over, we must look to the post-Sanders period in this political season. What did he get done, what mark does he leave and where lie his failures? In all cases, why have things turned out as they have?

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