Okay, Trump barely won against Hillary. The symbol of establishment corruption. The swing states he took, he did by the narrowest of margins. People hated Hillary and the only reason Trump won was because more people than ever chose not to vote... We had the lowest voter turnout ever.
Sanders comparitively, invigorates the base. All the people who voted Hillary would have voted Sanders AND there would be the huge turnout of young voters that Hillary just couldn't produce AND all the voters who chose not to vote would have voted. Democrats win with large voter turnouts, republicans win with small voter turnouts. That's what this all comes down to. Hillary was a recipe for failure, even against Trump.
Hillary in the primaries had more name recognition than any candidate's ever had. Bernie kept getting stonewalled by the press.
I find it ridiculous that it's even a question whether Bernie would have won. I think if it was Bernie running, we'd have flipped a couple of hard-red states as well as all the democratic swing states.
I don't know if you realize this, but Trump was not a popular candidate with anyone. People just saw him as "not-the-establishment" and went with him.
