He's drawing big crowds and surging in the polls. That suggests to me that there's a lot of "anybody but Hillary" in his support because I just don't think there's that many outright socialists in the Democratic ranks, especially after how badly Obama's socialist policies have failed. Remember, it's the economy, stupid. And the economy (despite
@Arkady daily diatribes about how wonderful things are) generally sucks and people feel that. It's going to be pretty easy for the Republican nominee to hang the bad economy around the neck of whoever the Democrats nominate. That means the Democrats should be looking for a more business friendly candidate, not a socialist, to pull them away from the precipice of Obamunism's bad economic results. Sanders doesn't fit that bill. It will be really interesting to see how the debates transpire and whether the other Democrats choose to bloody Hillary's nose with her association to a failed Obama Administration.
Of course the same dynamic is in play on the Republican side as the establishment candidates have to either defend Bush or throw him under the bus (where he belongs). Those debates should be interesting as well.
We simply cannot continue to rack up debt at a trillion $ a year rate with the economy stuck in a Euro-socialist style secular stagnation. With the EU breaking up over the debt bomb, we can see our future if we don't turn away from the kind of policies Bernie Sanders (and Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush for that matter) would bring to the table. There's a lot riding on this election...