As Usual, Bernie Sanders Tried to Ruin Everything

And as usual his supporters are trying to appropriate the meme.

The only man who was socially distanced before it was cool.

I commented to a friend a few days ago that it felt like we had all collectively aged a decade in the last four years. Biden’s inauguration was an uplifting relief, but it was cathartic and melancholy. It wasn’t truly celebratory, certainly not in the way Obama’s was. Watching it as virtually all Americans had to in isolation I was struck that it seemed muted. When J-Lo sang “get loud,” in a minor key it felt not like joy but almost muted relief. I volunteered for Biden’s campaign, I promoted and supported Kamala Harris online, and I spent my weekends helping voters get registered and then send in their ballots. This was my victory as much as it was Biden’s or Harris’. And I’m proud of the work I did. But I didn’t do the work to “win,” from a political perspective. I did it because we as a nation fell into fascism for four years and we needed to claw our way back to a semblance of democracy.

This is a story that starts back in 2016 or 2015. In fact, it starts well before that with Jim Crow and the failure by a lot of white Americans to truly understand how damaging white supremacy is to everyone. We paid for our myopia with the death of friends and relatives. Not everyone who watched Trump’s ascent to power — unelected though he…