Bernie trending is a good time to remind people that saying he would have, or at the very least could have, won is not "relitigating the primary," or looking back or refusing to move on. If we actually care about the present & the future we have to correct the record & debunk...

myths that powerful people and institutions were very invested in perpetuating. The idea that Bernie wasn't electable was a self-fulfilling prophecy and a false narrative but it was repeated again and again despite evidence to the contrary by people who claim to be the adults...

in the room, the secondary sources, not the primary sources. They were the media figures and politicians and statesmen who were pretending to be just observing, just telling it like it is. Describing, not prescribing. But they, as even they couldn't help reveal from time to...

time, absolutely hated him. See "he makes my skin crawl," and every other tweet from Joy Ann Reid, and various rants from Chris Matthews and comments from the most entitled, disgusting Clinton campaigners who I still can't get over complained about the guy who did more to get...

her elected than she did herself. I'm sure some of the people who hate Sanders are out of touch enough or choose to be out of touch enough to know that their visceral hatred of a man was not, in fact, an indicator of how the rest of the country felt. And some of them just lied...

and for many it's a combination. But there are important take-aways here for the present and the future. And powerful media and political elites are very much invested in portraying Sanders' ideas as just not palatable or doable. As out of step with the mainstream. And they...

have to do that because the ideas are actually very much part of the mainstream. So they're of course that much more invested in pretending they're not. Right Wingers are much more honest in their hatred of Sanders' ideas. Liberals can't really trash medicare for all as openly...

as Republicans can, though they've come a long way becoming the means-testing advocates that wasn't always so acceptable, but anyway. The liberal line on Sanders is about viability, not morality or ethics. So don't fall for this or let them win this war because it's not an...

attack on Bernie Sanders. I mean, it is, of course. But it's an attack on everyone who would benefit from the things that he and so many others are fighting for every day. It really is a "Not Me, Us," thing, or "Not Him, Us" thing, appropriately enough.