Ronald C. Couch is right. You cannot defend your repetition of a baseless smear of Sanders from the DNC and Hillary fans.

About 12% of voters for Sanders in the primary voted for Trump in the general. In 2008, about 25% of voters for Hillary in the primary voted for McCain in the general. Both those stats are reported here, and many other places.

Bernie campaigned for Hillary relentlessly. 41 rallies, IIRC. Hillary publically thanked him and wrote him a thank you letter. Even Rachel Maddow praised him for doing so much to help.

Your whole premise is that you think Bernie can’t win. The facts of 2016 refute that premise. Sanders won 46–47% of the vote in a primary filled with election fraud (admitted and not), voter suppression (proven), campaign finance fraud (admitted), DNC rigging (admitted), etc., etc. Without the rigging, the evidence says that Sanders would have won.

Since 2016 Sanders has gotten more support, not less. The 2016 D primary is all about his policy proposals, most importantly M4A, which has 80–90% D approval. Were it not for the MSM blackout and bias, Sanders would be doing even better than he is.

Every poll shows Sanders beating Trump, starting from the day of the 2016 election.

For me the question is not whether Sanders can win the GE, it is whether the DNC will cheat so much to deny him victory in the primary.