'Bernie' Is Not Seeking Our Party's Nomination For President

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14. Agree completely. Except I strongly suspect his rage, reported

by many who'd been around him while he delayed endorsing for a month while nothing happened to take out the nominee, suggests he may have come to genuinely believe he might somehow still succeed. Almost certainly long before that the enthusiastic response to his grandiose promises, assisted by the concerted efforts of our own RW forces, their MSM agents, far-left media, and Russia, helped him come to believe it could happen.

Of course, we know now he is a True Believer in himself, so he always believed it should. And given his proven, self-revealed delusions about what it takes to achieve huge political goals in the real world, I see no reason to assume he didn't enter this race believing that this time the giant wave of support would develop.

Those hopes and expectations developed very belatedly on top of what you describe, of course, which has been lifelong Sanders. After all, the goal of his long-ago hopeless spoiler candidacy for governor of VT was not to become governor but as a platform to to oppose, malign and splinter away support from the Democratic Party, and he had his success when the Democratic incumbent lost the governorship to the Republican Party.

At least it won't be deja vu all over again, and yet again, now that more people see him.