Democratic Political Strategist, Tad Devine was the chief senior advisor to the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign. His book, How The Democrats Screwed Bernie, is not an apology for a defeat but rather an inside look at exactly how the Sanders effort unfolded and then folded.

There are two narratives here. First is the story of an incredible successful grass roots campaign that came within inches of delivering the 2016 presidential nomination to Sanders. The book is eye opening into the intricacies of a grassroots political organization and resulting hugely successful campaign. It is also a very close look at Bernie himself and his wife Jane and their hands on political savvy. The book answers the question as to why Bernie never gets off message.

The second narrative is how the Democratic National Committee and the party establishment worked tirelessly from within to defeat Bernie. At first the establishment looked at Bernie as pesky fly. By the time that he was attracting crowds of upwards of 25,000 and polling showed his strength in Iowa, they panicked. Despite rules requiring neutrality during a party primary, the DNC threw the entire weight of its financial resources and organization behind Hillary Clinton. They went as far as to make access to common voter information unavailable to the Sanders Campaign. Wasserman Schultz was eventually fired as DNC Chair over the egregious breech of protocol.

Finally, Devine, admittedly at the risk of sour grapes, makes a convincing case that Bernie Sanders would have been the better candidate and very likely beat Donald Trump in the general election.

Much water under the dam. ( Excuse te cliche but seems apprioriate)