Wall Street hates him and he has a long memory for those who have offended him. He hates Wall Street? What other corporate overlords? He has no relationships with any American Banks as he has burned those Bridges long ago. Deutsch Bank may call in a marker on him any day now as he owes and they are nearly broke. I can't think of any Domestic Overlords for him to bend over for.

But to be fair, he plans to repeal Frank/Todd and deregulate everything, which a horrible idea and he'll get it. If that's what you mean about serving corporate America, then I can see that. He may be an idiot, racist bully, swine but he will be a powerful president with the congress in republican control. The entire world is nervous and I hope he receives much opposition.

Are you prepared to support the orange anus if he is opposing the TPP? What about infrastructure spending? Would you support him? TOP is already vowing to oppose everything even these things. If you can't get the President you want, then force the President you have to do what you want. Carrots and a whip for the jackass--who knows, we might make some progress.

to be ineffective at everything.

Press or anyone else. He already has an army of BernieBros, Berners and Berniecrats ready to go.

I'm an expert at spotting opinions based on MSM propaganda.

I have zero interest in the Tell-all books by any players after the fact. The 99% were ignored, treated as stupid. Of course we became unhappy! And scattered by our personal winds. We were dissed as participants. Must. break. though. anger. and.disappointment. There is a common heart in most.

We lost, what should the left do now?

          What can we do to start moving in the right correct direction. While any suggestion of action should be supported by sound reasoning, sound reasoning by itself is just an academic exercise.

          My reasoning is: Sanders was running a campaign that addressed the bulk of our (if I may be so bold) concerns. My sense is that it is not too late to pick of on this. The most difficult challenge is the issue of the Hillary Supporter's anti-Trump rallies/riots. If we are to pretend we can have an effect on the Democratic Party, we need these people to see reason. If not then we should set an attainable goal outside that Party.

          So, once again, "What one thing can we do to make a difference?"

Nope. Not even close. Yuuuge difference.

The narcissistic buffoon talks a good game, if you like reality tv and would buy from a used car salesman, but he was the most transparent faux populist of all-time. He pandered the whole way, which is what politics is all about, but in the way that a typical businessman/salesman does when he knows his audience.

Trump has no intellectual curiosity whatsoever. His brain is abnormally developed in a sociopathic business sense, but little elsewhere. He's a thin-skinned bully with no real core at all.

Bernie was an exceptional public servant, seeped in the long and hard struggle of movement building and historical context of the moment, and drove home a consistent, laser-focused message of economic inequality, Wall St fraud and Money In Politics that connected the dots for the nation when he had the chance, building on the foundation that Occupy set up. Trump is an ADD-afflicted lout who changed his mind, literally, from second to second. He's a sham through and through. He completely saw Bernie's message resonating and plagiarized his platform, in a sloppy and directionless way, then funneled it out to the gullible, making wild grandiose promises he had no intention of ever keeping.

That said, in a a weird way I think there may be something to the potential of them working together. They're two real New York guys, with our unmistakeable accents and all, and I think Bernie may be able to get in his ear, as the two outsiders in the race who captured the imagination of the country. In all fairness Drumpf remains an unknown quantity in terms of governance. That could be frightening, but he will also be looking for guys who he thinks are not full of shit (the irony is amazing there). That's where Bernie, with a similar kind of directness, may be able to help settle and get things onto the right track.

Al, you were right.
I was wrong.
And will probably be wrong again.
But still ain't gonna give up totally.