I know, none of us care about Bernie but I wanted to say this anyways.
Bernie losing exposed the failures of bourgeois electoralism to a huge group of people who otherwise would have just taken Bernie’s win as an excuse to continue apathetically upholding the Capitalist system. If he won, he would’ve faced constant opposition from both parties preventing him from actually accomplishing anything. The only reason Trump is allowed free reign is because his destruction is relatively beneficial to the bourgeoisie. Bernie would not get the same treatment. That is, if he didn’t immediately capitulate on everything he campaigned for. We have a lot more people who are at least more likely to side against US Capitalism in the future now that they’ve experienced this failure, domestic and foreign.
I wasn’t very clear but I don’t mean that every Bernie stan turned communist overnight. Of course most are just going to vote for Biden but there is a pretty sizable chunk of Bernie stans who have engaged with leftist politics since Bernie lost. I mean, there was a pretty big exodus from Bernie subs to leftist subs like Chapo before the ban and I know several people irl who were radicalized left because of it.