I’ve said it a million times, but it bears repeating after NH: barring a massive recession, THERE IS NO REVOLUTION. Sanders represents about 30 percent of the voters in the Democratic Party, and less than half that in the electorate as a whole. He cannot bring hordes of new left-leaning voters to the table. His best case scenario is to be a caretaker president, not the American Lenin.
And what is the point of Bernie without the revolution? Why would anyone choose him just to expel Trump and keep the wheels of government running? Is anyone really that impressed with his record in Burlington?
The bottom line is that a Sanders candidacy in 2008 might have made sense. Today–not so much.