The NYT endorsement thing has only served to further convince me that if Sanders takes the lead or becomes the nominee, the backlash from establishment (political, economic, and media) institutions could be even more fierce than it was for Trump
I think the Anglophone liberal-left has a pretty insufficient understanding of reactionary / counter-revolutionary movements, of the ways that elites can strike back when horrified of socialism. Because most cases in history were our allies and are therefore memory holed forever
I do think @mattyglesias is right when he says that Sanders actually knows how to deal with the Senate, he wouldn't want to blow up the system, etc. But what matters even more than that is if a few critical actors or institutions convince themselves he is going to do revolution
In the US, we learn a lot more about (very real) crimes committed by socialist regimes than we do about like, White Terror carried out by Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee or Suharto (I've been thinking about these issues way too much because of a book project, so I may be biased)
Anyways I don't think Sanders would face like a coup or straight violence or anything, but: all-out assault from certain media outlets, the threat of capital strike, the threat that certain government institutions would refuse to work with him, I think we may need to worry there
