If someone else comes in with a plurality of delegates, then Bernie's campaign failed (and, as stated above, if it was cheated, that's still its failure), his political chance is over, and millions of those who were energized by his movement will leave the Democratic Party to become the dead shell it deserves to be, fronted by whichever zombie Clintonite is nominated.
If Bernie comes in with a plurality of delegates, the superdelegates will come in and give the nomination to Biden or equivalent. It will look a lot worse if Bernie came in with 40% of delegates to Biden's 30% than if it had been 35%-31%. (And one reason I'll vote for him is so that scam will be as clear as possible.) But with any Bernie plurality, there will be no spinning it away: There are two elections-one for the public, one for the donors. The people get one shot; donors get the do-over.
In which case, I agree with Krystal Ball :
If Sanders is headed to winning a plurality or majority of delegates and you take it from him through superdelegates or rules changes or other dirty tactics, you will absolutely destroy the Democratic Party"[and] destroy the idealism and political engagement of the young people who overwhelming back Sanders.
It will be clear, I hope and think, to those very good people, once and for all, that they can never get what they want from the Democratic Party.
What happens to Bernie and those people politically after that depends on what Bernie does. if he fights like hell with his plurality all the way through, refuses to accept whatever centrist the DNC picks, and calls for a Demexit and third party, then he, those people, and the movement he led, will be alive and kicking.
If he accepts himself and his "us" being brushed aside, embraces the DNC's centrist pick, and does "everything in my power" to keep their game going-well, I hope and think his supporters will see once and for all that they can never get what they want from the Democratic Party or from him, and it will be the political death of both of them. Bernie will then have sheepdogged from the top dog position.
What will he do? Whatever he does, it will not be from opportunism or pandering, but from his sincere conviction in answering these questions: Is there a dispositive ethico-political difference in kind between the Democratic and Republican parties? Will any Democrat be decisively better than Trump? Is the two-party system the best of possible worlds in the U.S. today and for the foreseeable future? Do "yes" answers to all of those questions require putting away "the mass movement for political revolution"?
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