What’s really going on with “Bernie or Bust”

Jason Sattler wrote a rather interesting for USA Today on Feb 9th.

Moderate Democrats have a duty to consider Sanders. He has a clear path to beating Trump.

In this article he busted a common lie that Bernie hasn’t accomplished much:

“Perhaps the most ridiculous claim is that Bernie hasn’t accomplished enough.

This ignores the more than 200 bills he’s co-sponsored that became law — including the 2014 Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act he negotiated with conservative lawmakers John McCain and Jeff Miller to reform the Veterans Administration. (Trump loves that law so much that he often takes credit for it himself.) ”

However, the article also perpetuated a different lie, commonly known as “Bernie or Bust”:

“His followers’ occasional threats to withhold support for their non-preferred nominee are as unconscionable as they’d be from anyone who should oppose Trump, given the purposeful damage this president gleefully does to the most vulnerable. This spite — along with a sometimes creepy hostility toward “normie” Democrats and a willingness to traffic in conspiratorial thinking that invests mystical sway in a sometimes comically inept Democratic National Committee — offers some evidence that this movement may lack the coalition-building potential…