That’s the only potential in stumping for Ole Bernard. Admit it. With Biden’s victory they can hold out hope that Bernie would’ve been able to do something different. There’s no alternative to an independent and international party of the working class.
I'm not saying that he'd deliver policy, although doing something like cancelling student debt wouldn't be nothing. I'm saying we'd live in a world where more people believed that things could fundamentally change. I think that him and Corbyn both losing made that feel impossible again for a lot of people and that's going to demobilise them. There were a lot of people whose first engagement with organised politics came from Bernie and Corbyn stuff. I think that them losing ultimately that makes it harder for us because it leaves a lot of people feeling helpless and so they don't engage at all. Like, I don't see how it wouldn't be better than what we have.
I agree with you that the US will need a stronger labour movement for left political movements to be successful though