Sanders is still a fair distance off from being the Democratic candidate. It is absolutely right and good to lay into him at this point. However, once he becomes the candidate - or it's extremely likely that he will be - we should learn the lesson of 2016 and *shut the hell up*
Sanders was *maybe* my sixth-choice candidate when this started, and is a grudging second now. If, like me, you can't stand much of his supporters' attitudes and found them intolerable in 2016, *now is the chance to seize the moral high ground of smugness*.
Did you find the way some of his supporters kept undermining Clinton even though so much was at stake incredibly childish and frustrating? Don't do that yourself!
Did you find the sight of people booing the candidate at the convention the epitome of self-destructive politics? Don't do that! Don't support equally futile gestures!
Did you find the belief in magical math that could make him the candidate even though he'd clearly lost stupid? Don't cling to futile or anti-democratic positions if he's clearly the nominee!
Did you see people amplifying Republican talking points about Clinton *from the left* like morons in the run-up to the general? Don't do the same about Sanders from the center or the center-left.
Was it incredibly frustrating to watch people fall for a disinformation/dirty tricks campaign because they hated Clinton more than they feared Trump? Don't repeat their mistakes!
If you do all this, you will be seized with the warm glow of smug superiority to those dicks, and on election night 2020 you will be able either to watch Trump lose or at least to tweet 'bernie would have won' memes with a good conscience.
And it goes without saying - if you support Sanders and want him to win, don't crow if he's the nominee, don't do stupid 'bend the knee' shit, and remember that he will win *off the votes of people with different politics than you.*
