For the sake of the common good, and for the survival of the republic, Bernie Sanders needs to withdraw and throw his unqualified support to Hillary Clinton. As the trajectory of Donald Trump’s campaign veers increasingly towards neo-fascism, the Democratic Party must unite behind its most electable and best qualified candidate.
Sanders has accomplished his initial goals of bringing the critical issues of income inequality, the abuses of Wall Street, and the corruption of the campaign process by big money, and Citizens United to the forefront, nudging Clinton to the left and sharpening her campaigning skills.
There is fairly universal agreement that he lacks a viable path to the nomination in a delegate count. Every day he remains in the race strengthens Trump’s prospects.
America stands at a crossroads. The image of the African-American protester at the North Carolina Trump rally being sucker-punched as the candidate egged on the cheering mob is both a horrific harbinger of an American future too horrible to contemplate and an echo of the rise to power of the worst paternalistic dictators of the 1930s.
Victor Weinblatt
South Hadley