I’m not American so I was on the sidelines, but I think there was merit in supporting the Bernie campaign in 2020, even if Bernie himself has been a disappointment since. The campaign was extremely successful in spite of the active pushback from the status quo political establishment. The Democrats had to sacrifice a lot of their credibility to stop Bernie from getting a shot at the general election, and ultimately the result was Biden shitting the bed in as many ways as you can shit a bed.

I would argue that the Bernie 2020 campaign hastened the decline of the Democratic Party, and for the right reasons. It showed that people will come out to support good things, and the Biden train wreck showed that those same people will stay home if you don’t do those things.

What would have been sad is to see him win and have to watch him send a trillion dollars to Ukraine and Israel while still not being able to get universal healthcare off the ground. That would have qualified for the fell-for-it-again-award for sure.