So now what? I can tell you that the answer to that question is not as straightforward as TV talking heads will have you believe. In the fishbowl universe of TV talking heads the choice is binary. Sanders has two choices. 1) Keep going and thereby “hurt” the presumptive nominee. or 2) Quit – and thereby “help” the presumptive nominee.
That formulation is obviously stupid and reductive.
Sanders is now clearly the voice of a wing of the Democratic Party that deserves to be heard. Quitting, and especially quitting in order to acquiesce to Delaware Dem’s strange and punitive list of demands, doesn’t help anybody, with possible exception being Donald Trump.
Continuing to make the case that the Democratic Party can and should be better – continuing to make that case that the Democratic Party is the legitimate home to people who have been given the shit end of the stick for the past 25 years – continuing to make the case that there is at least one party in the United States that is on the side of reason and empiricism… that’s the thing that will help us win in November.