Were Bernie’s supporters any more than useful idiots?

By Richard K. Davis

To the Clinton campaign, Bernie Sanders must have seemed the perfect opponent, at least in the beginning. A congenial straw man, a certain loser, sweet old Soviet-era Bernie offered the pretense of a race without the risk. Then he almost mucked it up. Not even God saw that coming. But despite moments of panic as Bernie outperformed expectations, there never was any real danger he’d go completely rogue and try to dethrone Hillary.

No way the establishment was being Trumped on this one. To his supporters, Bernie was the antidote to the establishment, an anti-Hillary, a new voice in an old body. It seemed as if he told the truth, and you can’t get any more anti-Hillary than that. No doubt he was the better candidate. Hillary is a card-carrying member of the global kleptocracy, a scandal-ridden, big-money establishment crony who’s spent her entire life courting power and favors from the privileged One Percenters. To top it off, she’s one of the least likable, untrusted, divisive candidates in American history. But was Bernie really all that truthful?........ Read more