Sanders is benefitting from the same dynamic Trump benefited from in the 2016 GOP primary: his opponents are fractured, and he chugs along with his base, winning contests without garnering a majority of support. Last night saw Elizabeth Warren take a blow torch to Mike Bloomberg on stage. Several other candidates did as well, and that's a good thing. Bloomberg can go screw himself. Yeah, yeah, I'll vote for him over Trump, but that's a pretty low bar. He sucks, and the vetting he's finally getting is overdue and needed.
But if everyone is (rightfully) piling on Bloomberg, then once again, Sanders kind of skates free. If he wins Nevada, then what? How does he now win simply by being the frontrunner of a party that desperately wants to move on and nominate someone who can focus on Trump. While primaries have always been divisive, Sanders' online supporters have been especially divisive.
Sanders has a mass of things in his closet that aren't being properly vetted, and it worries me that the Democrats will nominate a hopelessly flawed general election candidate in the most important election since 1860.
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