Quote: Sal Paradise "Saunders is like Corbyn an unelectable ideologue - if the Democrats choose him they are certain to give Trump 4 more years.
Like Corbyn he is an easy target - his views are the complete opposite to culture in the US - its suicide.
Bloomberg is just a very nasty piece of work who will be found out.'"
I'd be wary of these certain narratives.
In 2008 people said the US would never elect a black President.
The "very nasty piece of work who will be found out" was basically what was said about Trump.
Sanders' support base is a bit different from Corbyn's. He polls better with voters who don't have a college degree than those who do, which is the opposite of Corbyn whose support was largely metropolitan university-educated types. He has a white working-class support base which Corbyn doesn't. So he has the potential to disrupt Trump in rust belt areas, which the centrist Democrats don't.
A year or two ago I remember people thinking Bernie would struggle to do as well as he did in 2016, because his Democrat opponents had caricatured his support base as 'Bernie bros', mostly white/male activist types who hadn't moved with the times on #MeToo or other elements of the socially progressive woke agenda. I think they thought Biden would wrap up the workers and black vote (due to his connections with Obama) and that the female vote, especially the young female vote, would rally around a female candidate. But the youth vote including the women, is breaking for Bernie and he's also taken Biden's natural support base as well, although Biden is likely to do better in the states with high black populations so the race isn't over.
I think Biden is the only one who could catch him now but Trump will be able to use the playbook he did against Hilary if he's running against Biden: part of the establishment, corrupt, swamp etc.