Anyone who’s been on the internet the past few days has seen the usual suspects back at it attempting to drive a wedge between voters and Hillary Clinton. This is not some harmless idiocy on their parts it’s actively jeopardizing Democratic electoral chances. Along with turning a generation of voters into apathetic and disengaged saps. Donald Trump is actively recruiting Bernie supporters by parroting these dead enders and while most are anti-Trump he’s convinced more than a few to if not take a pro-Trump stance to remain anti-Clinton.
The primaries are over Bernie Sanders lost fair and square and he needs to come out and publicly state that. Every moment he fails to do so just adds fuel to the fire. He needs to embrace Secretary Clinton as the progressive champion that she is and put aside any lingering hostility from the primary. Any protests on the convention floor by Bernie delegates will be used by Trump and the media to attack Clinton he remains directly responsible for people his campaign had a hand in installing. Given his appointment of now Jill Stein supporter Cornel West to the platform committee there is no doubt dead enders have slipped through and will be in Philadelphia.
If Senator Sanders can’t manage to find the courage and leadership to stand up to these louts it will forever tarnish his legacy. Endorsing Clinton has to mean more than just being anti-Trump, he needs to dig deep and think about the kind of America he wants to see.