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stopbush

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1. I seriously doubt that Sanders' armchair revolution
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 10:26 AM
Jun 2016

will last the year.

This was a personality based fad. Nothing more, nothing less. Now that the idol is departing the scene, there's really nothing left for his zealots to rally around.

If they couldn't be bothered to vote - or to even register to vote - when the mania was in full swing, how are they going to keep a personality driven movement alive without the personality?

Just as Sanders overestimated his leverage post-defeat, the media and just about everyone else has overestimated what the Sanders "revolution" actually was, and what its chances were for surviving past the primaries.

I give it a 5% chance, give or take 5%.

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