Quote (Goomshill @ 17 Dec 2019 16:25)
I'd still like any diehard Bernie supporter to explain to me why he lied to his supporters for a year, by omission or directly, covering up Hillary's JFA.
We know that Hillary Clinton's JFA gave her total control over the DNC party apparatus. All staffing, strategy, releases, research, funding, scheduling, etc etc- Hillary Clinton was micromanaging it all and the DNC was nothing but her puppet. And we know that Bernie Sanders knew about this as early as September 2016, after the primary, before the general election, when Donna Brazile called him and told him all about it. And for a full year, silence. Even as the public debate raged over whether the primary was rigged, Bernie who knew that it was rigged, stayed silent. And even after Hillary Clinton lost, Bernie stayed silent. We only learned about the JFA a full year later when Donna Brazile went public to Politico about it.
Even if we pretended that Bernie only kept it hush hush because he wanted Hillary to win as a cynical pragmatist despite knowing he'd been cheated- a betrayal of his all purported ideals and his supporters- it still wouldn't explain why he kept this secret after the election was done.
Easy to explain: he knew that he wanted to run again in 2020, and that he'd need some level of support, or at least tolerance, from the DNC apparatus to have any chance of succeeding. Had he thrown the party under the bus here, he'd have pissed off too many people and killed his 2020 run before it even began.