If they really wanted to do this, they would have let Sanders win. Letting Sanders win and then making him the fall guy for a million different crisis would have done as much damage to the left as Woodrow Wilsons purges after WWI.
From what I can gather, Summers is pretty explicitly on team Democrat, and works as an advisor for them when they are in power, so I don't think he thinks in terms of partisan / party political benefits. I think he makes the same mistake as every other neolib, which is assuming that he is able to transcend ideology and just work directly with the facts in front of him.
If they really wanted to do this, they would have let Sanders win. Letting Sanders win and then making him the fall guy for a million different crisis would have done as much damage to the left as Woodrow Wilsons purges after WWI.
From what I can gather, Summers is pretty explicitly on team Democrat, and works as an advisor for them when they are in power, so I don't think he thinks in terms of partisan / party political benefits. I think he makes the same mistake as every other neolib, which is assuming that he is able to transcend ideology and just work directly with the facts in front of him.