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With Sanders energy he showed during 2016, I believe he would have beaten Trump by 10-15 million votes.

Yes, Sanders polled well in 2016, but that was only because the Republicans never said a word against him. They wanted him to win the nomination because he would have been so easy to defeat. Had he become the candidate, they would have gone into hysterical red-baiting mode. The fact that he self-labelled as a Socialist for so long would be on everybody's mind. Then a few weeks before the election, they would have dragged out some of his early writing in which he expressed some sympathy for teenagers convicted of sexual crimes. So they would add "PEDOPHILE" to "COMMUNIST" and by the election he would have been lucky to get 10% of the vote.

Personally, I love Bernie and I would be happy to live in the country he envisions. But candidates with a gigantic boat anchor chained around their necks don't win. All Hillary had in her past was that Republicans smeared her for 30 years. Bernie had real stuff.