Who does Bernie Sanders think he is?

You have to admire Bernie Sanders’s chutzpah. For almost the entirety of his over 40-year career in politics, Sanders pointedly abstained from joining the Democratic Party. He is a ‘democratic socialist’, officially registered as an independent, and has never been elected to office as a Democrat, seeing that party as insufficiently collectivist. Sanders only affiliated himself with the Democrats last year, solely for the purpose of trying to capture the party’s presidential nomination. Now that he’s lost that battle, he will return to the Senate as an independent.

Given how Sanders has shown absolutely no loyalty to the Democratic Party – indeed, he has run against, and defeated, Democrats at the ballot box – it is the height of hypocrisy for him and his supporters to wail about the Democratic National Committee’s alleged ‘favoritism’ towards his erstwhile primary challenger, Hillary Clinton. His treatment of the Democratic Party is comparable to someone who steals a car, wrecks it, and then demands that the owner pay for the damages.